Timeline for Difference between "at" and "in" when specifying location
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 23, 2017 at 15:19 | comment | added | bib | @BenLee Yeah, but I am in the Village, in Chelsea, but on the Upper West Side. Also I can live in Manhattan, but on Staten Island (even though they are both islands). | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 0:59 | comment | added | Joan Pederson | Ben Lee illustrates two important points: "on" is an additional preposition for identifying location, and idiom trumps sense, with sometimes-alternating in's and on's cascading ever closer to the focal point. At may commonly be used with more tightly defined locations, but not all locations can enclose a person. One is commonly at a desk in a chair, and rarely at a desk at a chair, but never in a desk (with or without a chair) unless a contortionist or the victim of the sort of crime found mainly in cheap fiction. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 18:50 | comment | added | Ben Lee | I am on the planet Earth in the United States on the East coast in New York City on the Lower East Side in a commercial district on a street in a building at a desk in a chair. Yeah, "at" seems pretty specific. | |
| Oct 18, 2012 at 10:02 | history | edited | Nir Levy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added a bit more info
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| Oct 18, 2012 at 9:51 | history | answered | Nir Levy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |