Timeline for “A new pair of ” or “A pair of new”
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| Oct 19, 2012 at 6:22 | comment | added | Barrie England | @Kris: Everything depends on context. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 4:56 | comment | added | Kris | @BarrieEngland "the contexts in which the alternative is found" suggests that the implication/ emphasis depends on context. | |
| Aug 5, 2012 at 19:06 | vote | accept | albertjan | ||
| Aug 5, 2012 at 14:32 | comment | added | Barrie England | @David Wallace: I, too, would use 'a new pair of . . .' A closer inspection of the corpora would show the contexts in which the alternative is found. | |
| Aug 5, 2012 at 12:32 | comment | added | user16269 | It looks like there's some regional variation here. I'm fairly sure that a New Zealander would never say "a pair of new pants" or "a pair of new scissors". Possibly "a pair of new shoes", but this would be unusual. For me, all three would have to be "a new pair of ..." every time. I would be interested in knowing if there are dialects that have the opposite tendency. | |
| Aug 5, 2012 at 12:09 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |