Timeline for Difference between 'One to One' and 'One on One'
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| Aug 5, 2013 at 21:33 | comment | added | Martha | Regardless of whether you use to or on, you need an a: "We will have a one on one meeting." | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 17:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/364443990030307328 | ||
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| Aug 5, 2013 at 16:12 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @GreatBigBore: They're all "up-and-coming" usages, but it seems clear "non-competitive" meetings and discussions favour to more than "competitive" fight | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 15:59 | comment | added | SaganRitual | You typically wouldn't use either phrase for meetings. 'One-to-one' is rare and often technical in any case, you might say, 'On most websites there is a one-to-one relationship between a username and an account,' meaning that there is only one username per account, and only one account per username. As @FumbleFingers said, 'one-on-one' tends to suggest physical activity, or at least competition of some kind. For meetings, it would be more typical to say, '...a meeting, just you and I?' Also, say, 'Will we...' not 'We will'. | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 6:32 | answer | added | Mari-Lou A | timeline score: 23 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 5:34 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't think there's any difference with meetings. In some other contexts, such as two opposing groups of football hooligans, for example, it might be a bit more likely you'd say they engaged in one on one fights (if in fact they did). But for most purposes, it's just a much less common version of one to one (they both simply mean there are only two participants interacting in whatever the activity is). | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 5:20 | answer | added | Ajay | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 5:16 | answer | added | Sunita Venkatachalam | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 4:51 | answer | added | p.s.w.g | timeline score: 19 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 4:50 | answer | added | Andrew Ng | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 5, 2013 at 4:33 | history | asked | Just_another_developer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |