<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The AP Stylebook agrees with your questioner. Among.<div><br></div><div>However, I think that when something sounds funny to you, often the best solution is just rearranging the sentence to avoid the problem. E.g.:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Spaces can dynamically shift on demand from city street to park to energy source -- featuring asphalt, grass or photovoltaic cells.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><div>On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Scott R Campbell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">This question has been posed to me and I don’t know the answer. Should the word in this sentence be ‘between’ or ‘among’? <div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Rotating between asphalt, grass and photovoltaic cells, spaces can dynamically shift from city street to park to energy source – on demand.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>‘Between’ sounds right to me but my questioner suggests that when there are more than three, ‘among’ is the right choice. What’s the rule here?</div><div><br></div><div>It’s a caption for this image:</div><div><br></div><div>
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