I heard a Brazilian iron-ore magnate speaking on a BBC news program
about how he had become so rich, and he said that at one point “the
price of iron ore came from $10 a ton to $180 a ton.” I realized that
there was a subtle mistake in English usage here: Even if the price is
still $180 now, we do not say that the price came from $10 to $180; we say the price went from $10 to $180. But why?
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/02/19/coming-and-going-2/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
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