Report into the BBC's favorite preposition

[nq:1]I wonder when the BBC first published, either in broadcast or in writing, the phrases "report into" and "study into".[/nq]
Never, I hope. You aren't giving us enough context: are report and study verbs or nouns? (Don't say "Yes"!)

John Briggs

[nq:2]I wonder when the BBC first published, either in broadcast or in writing, the phrases "report into" and "study into".[/nq]
[nq:1]Never, I hope. You aren't giving us enough context: are report and study verbs or nouns? (Don't say "Yes"!)[/nq]
Why not?

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[nq:2]I wonder when the BBC first published, either in broadcast or in writing, the phrases "report into" and "study into".[/nq]
[nq:1]Never, I hope. You aren't giving us enough context: are report and study verbs or nouns? (Don't say "Yes"!)[/nq]
Yes.

Quentin Burward

[nq:2]I wonder when the BBC first published, either in broadcast or inwriting, the phrases "report into" and "study into".[/nq]
[nq:1]Never, I hope.[/nq]
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Adrian

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[nq:2]Never, I hope.[/nq]
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Dear Adrian: You've excelled in your homework, so you may clean the whiteboard. But I still wonder when the BBC got into its habit of torturing "into". Was it in the 1970s? The 1980s? The 1990s?

And I wonder which part of the world was the source of the BBC's habit, and what the BBC's "

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[nq:1]Dear Adrian: You've excelled in your homework, so you may clean the whiteboard. But I still wonder when the BBC ... world-service radio. It's high time someone did a study of the habit and then wrote a report on that study.[/nq]
There's something interesting going on here. "Report" and "study" are nouns (thanks, everyone, for telling me!), but the BBC are using "i

Oh, and it's "favourite" in ucle.

John Briggs

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[nq:2]Dear Adrian: You've excelled in your homework, so you may ... "into". Was it in the 1970s? The 1980s? The 1990s?[/nq]
There is a new use of "into" on trains these days. "Ladies and gentlemen, we will shortly be arriving into Swindon. Swindon is your next station stop". And so it goes on until we arrive "into" London Paddington. It's not just one individual doing this a

[nq:1]I wonder when the BBC first published, either in broadcast or in writing, the phrases "report into" and "study into".[/nq]
From the M&G Investments web site:
"If you are investing into an ISA..."
What is the Usenet representation of vomit?

[nq:2]I wonder when the BBC first published, either in broadcast or in writing, the phrases "report into" and "study into".[/nq]
[nq:1]From the M&G Investments web site: "If you are investing into an ISA..." What is the Usenet representation of vomit?[/nq]
There's a distinction which it's possible you are too stupid to comprehend, though.
To invest in an ISA is to start one up. To inve