Timeline for Short "on" VS Short "of"
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| Apr 24, 2023 at 4:09 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 7:13 | answer | added | Emre Bener | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 7:36 | comment | added | A-friend | Per your answers &RuslanD, I think even native AE speakers have no definite choice among them and I knew that. Just regarding my original question, I just needed to know which preposition sounds more correct to Americans in each collocation! That would be really helpful if you kindly let me know just about your own approach towards these combinations as a typical AE native speaker. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 7:13 | comment | added | RuslanD | Here's also another thread on this question in ELL: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/161529/…. I can't tell whether the accepted answer is from an AE or BrE speaker, but I like comment from Hot Licks on the original question. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 7:10 | comment | added | RuslanD | Here's an article by what seems to be an American author using "short on breath": bustle.com/p/…. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 6:55 | comment | added | A-friend | I see @RuslanD, just please confirm my take on whether in AE we can only be "short on cash / money / time / players / nurses etc." while we can be "short of gas / breath". If so, then please make an answer so that I can accept it as an answer to my question. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 6:44 | comment | added | RuslanD | An n-gram corpus depends on the selection of documents that go into the corpus, and isn't meant to "prove" or "disprove" a statement about the language quite in the way in which you've chosen to interpret it. Here's a recent article about COVID-19 where an emergency room worker is talking about how some hospital floors are "short on nurses": buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/…. Does this "prove" anything? No, it doesn't - that's why I was careful not to make it sound like I was expressing a rule. | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 6:37 | comment | added | A-friend | books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 6:35 | comment | added | A-friend | books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 6:35 | comment | added | A-friend | Good job @RuslanD. Just can you come up with any exception where your suggested semi-rule does not apply? Also, please have a look on Google Ngram replies which proves all your suggested answers is the other way around in AE: books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 2:33 | comment | added | RuslanD | AE speaker here. I'm not sure I could generalize that AE uses "on" more whereas BE prefers "of". I see "on" used with things you count or measure, like "short on time/money/supplies", and "of" otherwise as in "short of breath". That's not a hard and fast rule, though, and in fact I'd recommend that you just learn how the speakers of your chosen English dialect use "short of" vs "short on", rather than try to come up with a rule. | |
| Apr 22, 2020 at 21:47 | history | edited | A-friend | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2020 at 21:26 | history | asked | A-friend | CC BY-SA 4.0 |