'good at' or 'good in'? Lim Chiu Lan from Malaysia doesn't know if we say someone is 'good at English' or 'good in English' ...
Why are they so difficult? Often they aren't easy to translate, but even when there's a translation, it doesn't always apply, because English prepositions have lots of meanings and uses.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist about the recent Merriam-Webster declaration that English sentences may end with prepositions.
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