Timeline for More grammatically correct: "anything but" or "anything except"?
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| Nov 4, 2012 at 3:48 | vote | accept | Vishal | ||
| Nov 2, 2012 at 12:37 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 11:17 | vote | accept | Vishal | ||
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 10:47 | history | edited | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 10:46 | comment | added | mplungjan | I think so too. I will remove it since it is more relevant to use the example given by Kris in the comment | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 10:41 | comment | added | Vishal | Just for confirmation, Is example given about not suiting to ear or is second sentence grammatically incorrect? I think second sentence is incorrect. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 9:39 | comment | added | mplungjan | Updated the answer | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 9:37 | history | edited | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 9:12 | comment | added | Kris | True. But this may not be true in all instances of 'anything but/ except' -- "What'll you have?" "Anything but/ except coffee." (I don't drink coffee./ I hate coffee./ I had coffee a while ago.) We cannot make a broad-based categorical statement that it was not expected. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 9:06 | history | answered | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |