Timeline for "Consists of" vs. "consists in": different meanings of the verb, or the same meaning applied differently?
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| Sep 5, 2020 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1302033775069745153 | ||
| Sep 4, 2020 at 20:07 | history | edited | Robusto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2016 at 17:23 | history | edited | Robusto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 1, 2013 at 20:27 | vote | accept | Robusto | ||
| Dec 29, 2012 at 16:45 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 16:04 | comment | added | Robusto | @AndrewLeach: Thanks, but that is not the question I am asking, and I don't think that Twain, careful writer that he was, would have used subsists in when he meant something else, even today. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 16:01 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 15:11 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | The question is really whether Twain meant what modern English uses as consists of or whether these days he would have written subsists in. Call for OED, I think. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 14:57 | history | asked | Robusto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |