LETTER : It's alarming in the dark
From Lord Quirk, RBA
Sir: Afraid of the dark (letter, 14 February) is not just "the regular collocation" as compared with afraid in the dark.
The two are different from/ than/to each other, and it is alarming that lexicographers at Chambers and Larousse can not see this.
Yours faithfully,
Randolph Quirk
House of Lords
London, SW1
14 February
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