The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Beside-Besides

B. "Beside-Besides." Saturday Press, October 30, 1858, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
editorial
Abstract

A letter to the editor criticizing White's claim that the words besides and beside are essentially the same word. B argues that they are both the same and different, in that besides is an adverb as well as a preposition.