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Well, I think you may be right. See my edit above. I suspect this is a regional usage pattern and I've just always been in places where "next to last" would be
by gwright 7y ago
Well, I think you may be right. See my edit above. I suspect this is a regional usage pattern and I've just always been in places where "next to last" would be used and not "second to last" so I was thinking they were different, but they apparently are the same!
Learn something new every day.
- gwright 7y agoHere is an ngram analysis with a British corpus https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csecond%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csecond%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnext%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Csecond%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csecond%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnext%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2C... And here is one with an American corpus: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csecond%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csecond%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnext%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2C...
- q3k 7y agoNice tool. You should expand the search range to include 2018/2019. Quite a significant change happened since then.