Timeline for Where to use on and upon?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Oct 21, 2021 at 11:27 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @tchrist Delightful caveat. | |
| Oct 21, 2021 at 4:10 | vote | accept | AltercatingCurrent | ||
| Oct 21, 2021 at 2:49 | comment | added | DjinTonic | Daniel Defoe; Some Considerations Upon Street Walkers With a Proposal for Lessening the Present Number of Them 1726 | |
| Oct 21, 2021 at 2:24 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @EdwinAshworth ♬ When you look upon a star / Makes no difference who you are ♬ | |
| Oct 20, 2021 at 20:12 | comment | added | DjinTonic | Once upon a time... | |
| Oct 20, 2021 at 16:40 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Non-central usages of 'on' tend to shun 'upon', the more opaque the idiom the less likely 'upon' is to work. ?'They will be upon their best behaviour' [dated]. *'That shed is upon fire.' 'Upon my word!' [again dated] bucks the trend. | |
| Oct 20, 2021 at 16:18 | history | answered | Andy Bonner | CC BY-SA 4.0 |