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Chan-Seung Lee

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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:58 am Post subject: by way of

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We went by way of London.

I wonder what the above quote mean? Does it mean 'we went after stopping by London.' or 'we went through London not stopping by it.'?

Thanks.

Lorikeet

Joined: 08 Oct 2005
Posts: 1877
Location: San Francisco

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: Re: by way of

Chan-Seung Lee wrote:

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We went by way of London.

I wonder what the above quote mean? Does it mean 'we went after stopping by London.' or 'we went through London not stopping by it.'?

Thanks.

We had different choices of routes to take to get to where we were going. One of them went through London. That's the route we took.

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