On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:30:19PM +0000, Andrea Campi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:52:21AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > Shouldn't that be "Which colour?" or even "Which color?" *duck* > > > > > > > > I don't think so. Why should it? > > > > > > Somewhere in my brain there's this notion that if one is choosing amongst > > > a > > > set of items one should use 'which' rather than 'what', e.g. 'which > > > floor' in > > > an elevator rather than 'what floor'. > > > > Would someone with a copy of "Elements of Style" look this up and paint > > the damned shed! > > My copy of "Practical English Usage" (great book, BTW) says: > > Which and what are often both possible, with little difference of > meaning. Which is preferred when the speaker has a limited number of > choices in mind. When the speaker is not thinking of a limited number > of choices, what is used.
Don't buy the "Elements of style", it is horrible. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001803.html - Diane -- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.db.net/~db _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
