Somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory, there's a half-buried idea that "each other" and "one another" are *not* the same thing, and are used differently. I seem to remember being taught that one's used when the interraction is limited to two only, and the other's used when there's a bigger group. The problem is, I can't, for the life of me, remember *which is which*...
I asked DH -- he is, afterall, a native speaker of English, and a (retired) prof of American lit at the U. He says he's never heard of such a distinction, and that the two are interchangable. OTOH, he's American born-and-bred, and, as I had taken my baby steps in *Brit* English, a seed of doubt remains... :)
I realise that I'll be *understood*, no matter which form I use... but I'd also like to be *correct* <g> It's bad enough that my punctuation is "all awry" due to the different influences; I'd as soon have my phrases right. So I thought I'd ask here... Perhaps some of you might be old enough to also have been taught something similiar? I've long ago given up trying to differenciate between "I shall" and "I will" (and don't use "I shall" at all, as a result), but, surely, there has to be a limit to how far a standard's permitted to slip?
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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