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Old 05-21-2013, 03:54 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Google's Ngrams viewer is interesting.


(Google "Replaced I couldn't care less with I could not care less to match how we processed the books")
Very interesting, indeed ... especially if you compare it with the graph for British English where the numbers for “I could care less” are much lower.

So, who wants to burn his fingers trying to interpret the difference?
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