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The other day I was asked whether one could say I went home by horse (the literal translation is a common expression in Portuguese). I told them one is more likely to say something like I rode home on my horse, well I guess...

What's your opinion? does by horse sound strange or is it acceptable?

Thanks

José

It's fine.

" All this, and much more, would be discussed over a good dinner and some equally good bottles of wine during an afternoon. Even in the 1780s travel was difficult and on foot or by horse --; it took at least four days to get from Edinburgh to London. Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today, or even in the 19th century, and local learned societies and journals flourished. There was in..."

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