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		nkozyra on Sept 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York ... If there's no line then you're simply in a sequence of points. But if we get pedantic we accept this will never satisfy the definition of a geometric line and the Brits were right all along to call them queues.

OJFord on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

Yep, I think so. ;)

You're always 'in the' queue (or queuing) though, not 'on' it. So if you must call it a 'line' or a 'line-up', I sympathise most with 'in'.

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