It bothers me to no end that sophisticated sources, copy writers, speech writers, continue to use "Meantime,..." where they mean to say "In the meantime...." I've heard it on the news, NPR, and read it in corporate speeches and press releases. It's "meanwhile" or "in the meantime" but not "Meantime,..." that should be used. Why does our society insist on shortening things constantly? Hearing the phrase "Meantime," start a paragraph is as irritating to me as a dangling particle, or ending a sentence with a preposition.
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