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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Fine by me & fine with me !

0 What is the difference between "fine by me" and "fine with me"?02br
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0 Both acceptable, but 01i 00with02i 00 is 10 times more frequent. 02br 02br 00 Search 02br 05002br 00 with 02br 01font 00"fine by me"02font 02br 00 (quotation marks are important)02br 00 for examples. 02br 02br 00 Origins, IMO: 02br 00 You must check things by me.

— Marius Hancu

  • 0 Both acceptable, but 01i 00with02i 00 is 10 times more frequent.
  • 02br 02br 00 Search 02br 05002br 00 with 02br 01font 00"fine by me"02font 02br 00 (quotation marks are important)02br 00 for examples.
  • 02br 02br 00 Origins, IMO: 02br 00 You must check things by me.
  • 02br 00 You must check things with me.
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0 Both acceptable, but 01i00with02i00 is 10 times more frequent. 02br
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01font00"fine by me"02font02br
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00 for examples. 02br
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00 Origins, IMO: 02br
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10What is the difference between "fine by me" and "fine with me"?12br
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10I've never heard 'fine by me'. (Always 'fine with me'.)0-
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0 Hmmm. 01i00Fine by me02i00 is quite common in the U.S.02br
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0 Yes, 01font00fine by me02font00 is now familiar to BrE speakers but it still has an American ring to it, so I'm not surprised thatYoong Liat, as a BrE specialist, finds it strange.0-
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01cite10J Lewis12cite10Yes, 11font10fine by me12font10 is now familiar to BrE speakers but it still has an American ring to it, so I'm not surprised thatYoong Liat, as a BrE specialist, finds it strange.12br
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10I think I should emigrate to England.0-
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0 "American ring to it"02br
00 Yes. I think even we Americans sense that to some extent.02br
00 It's almost as if we were using 01i00Fine by me02i00 as a sort of slang parody of 01i00Fine with me02i00, although many Americans, I think, don't see the parody now that our grandparents may have seen, and accept it as -- well
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