At least you sent me to my Fowler, where I learnt that `betwixt' was (around 1920) an Archaism (but so was `fall' for `autumn'!). I like `betwixt' and even `twixt'. I don't think there's any convention about between's being inclusive or exclusive, though I guess most would take it to be the latter. Any chance of establishing `betwEEN' as eenclusive and `betwiXt' as eXclusive? R. On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, cino hilliard wrote:
Some questions
1. How many whole numbers are between 0 and 10?
2. How many primes are between 2 and 3?
My answers are 11 and 2.
I think it is more consistent and concrete to include the bounds of a betweenness than not.
Obviously one could specify it in the question: how many primes between 2 and 3 including 2 and 3?
Can we "prove" it must be this way without specification?
My 2 cents.
Cino