Overheard on TV:
"That's the code in which I live by."
This is spectacularly bad. It uses two prepositions when only one is needed, and it uses two distinct ones, too. Here's what it should say:
"That's the code by which I live."
or
"That's the code I live by."
A similar error crops up in a Beatles song:
"the world in which we live in"
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That's actually a Paul McCartney song. But yes, it always bothered me until I decided to pretend that he's actually singing, "the world in which we're livin'." I don't believe it for a second, but I can pretend.
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