Timeline for 'Have dinner by candlelight' - preposition 'By' means 'using'?
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| Oct 31, 2019 at 21:07 | answer | added | bookbundler | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 22:04 | answer | added | Evan Williams | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 10:47 | comment | added | rackandboneman | There might be a connection with German idioms, German "bei" is a homophone of "by", and describes proximity/connected context - bei Nacht ("by night" is not unheard of), bei Kerzenlicht ("by candlelight" indeed), beim Fluss (English knows "by the river" too)... | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 5:47 | answer | added | mathheadinclouds | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 16:06 | answer | added | DavePhD | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1189195341209526274 | ||
| Oct 29, 2019 at 13:13 | answer | added | Chris Mack | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 12:37 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 29, 2019 at 6:24 | answer | added | Ben Kovitz | timeline score: 22 | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 6:14 | history | edited | Pith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 29, 2019 at 5:52 | answer | added | Jesse | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 4:32 | history | asked | Pith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |