On 11/23/06, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I never use "due to" and so I'm unlikely to go wrong ... ;-)
>
> Chris
I don't think Orwell ("Politics and the English Language") would have
approved of any of these phrases other than "because of." "Due to"
and "owing to" are not common American expressions anyway, but we have
problems all our own. :( Start a sentence with any of them and it
just gets worse from there.
I hope you know Orwell's essay, Chris:
http://eserver.org/langs/politics-english-language.txt
It out-Chrises Chris, folks, probably a hundred-fold. ;^) It's good
to read from time to time just to get that strong ammonia-whiff of
sanity.
Joel W.
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