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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2009-09-02 11:24 pm

Calling all English Geeks

(That's the language, not the country)

When would you use "Start" and when would you use "Begin"?

[identity profile] blackmanxy.livejournal.com 2009-09-03 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I use them largely interchangeably, opting for whichever one sounds better in a given sentence. I find "begin" slightly more formal and poetic and use it more often in writing than in speech.