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I’m puzzled by a couple of advertising jingles heard recently, by different companies.

Is it me, or does:

Only pay for what you need.

mean something rather different than:

Pay for only what you need.

?

KillingTime
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Bruce Simonson
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    Does this answer your question? Correct position of "only" // Pragmatics (how people actually use the language, however much this throws up inconvenient exceptions to 'the rules') trumps the 'well-behaved' ideal many have for the language. – Edwin Ashworth Jun 28 '23 at 10:50
  • You should explain what you think they mean. The principle of SE is that you do a little work when asking a question: research, think, explain why you're asking, go into a bit of detail. – Stuart F Jun 29 '23 at 22:34

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See this question.

Technically, Only pay for what you need could be said to mean 'only pay for it, don't do anything else to it'. In practice, no-one would really interpret it that way.

Kate Bunting
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