Are laboring and belaboring a verb?
I am writing this blog but amn’t sure of the reason for reading it. I know I am labouring
this point. The reason is what is used to arrive in this answer.
I believe that is an incorrect use of the word laboring and the author most likely intended to use belaboring, but I’m curious if the word laboring can be used in this way.
What is a dictionary? com gives belaboring as:
to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary: He kept belaboring the point long after we had agreed.
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As has been pointed out, there’s no semantic difference – they’re just two different versions of the same idiomatic usage. I have no experience with google if the word US/UK presents better comparisons than Google’s rather crude US/UK corpora (which are based on the country of publication and not author nationality ). What makes reading of the above chart
so interesting? Possibly because I think that AmE was more influenced by similar words that often occur in similar contexts ( berate, beleaguer, beset, belittle, such words can all be spelled with a
be- prefix?)
