connection

connection
connection
is now the dominant spelling, although connexion (preferred by Fowler) will be found in older printing styles. Fowler also wrote at length against what he regarded as the excessive use of in connection with, which he castigated as ‘a formula that every one who prefers vigorous to flabby English will have as little to do with as he can’. Certainly, when a simple preposition such as by or about or into will do instead, it should be used: inquiries in connection with the vandalizing of a local school would be better expressed as inquiries into the vandalizing of a local school.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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