Re: between and among

In uk.culture.language.english on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:23:12 +0000 (UTC),
tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Tony Mountifield) wrote:

}In article <486c0ac4$0$35959$4fafbaef@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
}ADPUF  <flyhunter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
}> 
}> Let me try again: if a pipe smoker has three pipes, that smoker
}> can alternate among them.
}
}If I were he (not that I would ever smoke a pipe),

I am.

} I could rotate around/among them,

I do.

} but not alternate among/between them.

I can't and don't - I agree that "alternate" would not be an option.

I am born and bred, an english man, and I speak only as a native english
speaker. 

{R}