Timeline for How to specify the location of a place by mentioning its neighbors?
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| Jul 6, 2017 at 7:45 | vote | accept | Cardinal | ||
| Jul 5, 2017 at 23:55 | history | edited | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 4, 2017 at 18:32 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | I am not an ngram groupie by any means, but bounded by is favored in both BrE and AmE by a small margin. However, bordered seems to be the more frequent usage in cartography as we advance in time. | |
| Jul 4, 2017 at 10:14 | comment | added | TimR | @Cardinal: indeed we can. google.com/… | |
| Jul 4, 2017 at 10:11 | comment | added | TimR | @P. E. Dant: the passive sounds quite natural to me in this context, where the subject is surrounded by the other states. | |
| Jul 4, 2017 at 8:23 | comment | added | Cardinal | @Tᴚoɯɐuo Do you use that verb when describing an area surrounded by other areas? For example, can I say the city is bored on the south by the mountains and on the north by see? Or I should use another verb. | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | @Tᴚoɯɐuo Doesn't border sound much more natural in the active voice, somehow? "On the East, Kansas borders on Missouri..." &c. | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 21:36 | answer | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 20:27 | comment | added | TimR | bordered to the north is not unknown, but neither is it preferred over bordered on the north. books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | Lambie | bordered to the north by Nebraska. | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 18:01 | answer | added | Junitar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 17:59 | history | edited | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
apostrophe, word order
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| Jul 3, 2017 at 17:57 | comment | added | TimR | "limited by" isn't the natural way of referring to a geographical locale. We'd say rather that "Kansas is bordered on the north by Nebraska". | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 17:08 | history | asked | Cardinal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |