N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section

Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by jlgreco on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:55PM (#6329185)

I am very surprised by the prevalence of "was graduated from". I have only rarely heard that in 'real life', is the NYT's style guide enforcing this usage?

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by jcampbell1 on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @02:29PM (#6329441)

Those are the most popular phrases in 1980. The times no longer uses "was".

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:01PM (#6329664)

I expect so - graduation is something that happens to you

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by Casseres on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @07:24PM (#6331179)

Agreed. When people say, "I graduated college", they are saying the college graduated from them, not they graduated from college. The correct usage should be, "I graduated from college."

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