Talk:few and far between
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic compositional
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Keene (talk • contribs)'s definition "rare and scarce" is crappy. --Rockpilot 18:29, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- Why? 86.183.2.73 20:07, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps because (deprecated template usage) rare and (deprecated template usage) scarce are synonyms in the applicable sense, whereas the expression implies something beyond mere rarity or scarcity, perhaps being "hard to find". DCDuring TALK 21:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Looks fine now --Celui qui crée ébauches de football anglais (talk) 10:05, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
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Isn't this one easily understood compositionally from it's parts of speech? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:39, 28 November 2019 (UTC)