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More Than Over

Posted by Bryan

With a new boss¹, we've been receiving some daily editing tips. I'll pass them along to assist you in your own writing.

"over" vs. "more than" - from the Internet
Some people claim that “over” cannot be used to signify “more than,” as in “Over a thousand baton-twirlers marched in the parade.""Over,” they insist, always refers to something physically higher: say, the blimp hovering over the parade route. This absurd distinction ignores the role metaphor plays in language. If I write 1 on the blackboard and 10 beside it, 10 is still the “higher” number. “Over” has been used in the sense of “more than” for over a thousand years.

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