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Mr. Tom Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Rue the day vs regret the day

Hi

Would you say that both sound equally natural to native ears?

I rue the day I met him.

I regret the day I met him.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=rue+the+day%2Cregret+the+day&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Crue%20the%20day%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cregret%20the%20day%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom

  

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As your Ngram shows, 'rue the day' is more idiomatic, and that is the one that sounds more natural to me.

— Mister Micawber

  • As your Ngram shows, 'rue the day' is more idiomatic, and that is the one that sounds more natural to me.
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As your Ngram shows, 'rue the day' is more idiomatic, and that is the one that sounds more natural to me.

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