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To: Sowbug who wrote (1701)	1/14/1999 8:27:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 4710

Sowbug, re "due to" and its appalling misuse, thank you so much for landing on one of my pet peeves! People seem addicted to misusing "due to" when they want to sound important. Instead they merely parade their ignorance. Unfortunately, this egregious misuse is repeated so often. We may be stuck with it. Cheers!

To: Sowbug who wrote (1701)	1/14/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Sowbug: I don't know whether "adjectival" is a word I've always used it and have pronounced it with a long "I" and accented on that syllable. (I can never remember if the next-to-last syllable is the antepenult or the penult.) Nobody questions "adverbial", so as far as I'm concerned, it is a perfectly good word. Congratulations on making that "due to" business finally clear to me. The explanation in Fowler's is a bit convoluted. I have never really tried to explain it but have simply substituted "owing to" or "because of" for "due to". Jack