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• "due to"

  (Usage Disputes)
  
  

  
     "Due to" meaning "caused by" is undisputedly correct in contexts
  where "due" can be construed as an adjective (e.g., "failure due to
  carelessness").  Its use in contexts where "due" is an adverb
  ("He failed due to carelessness") has been disputed.  Fowler says
  that "_due to_ is often used by the illiterate as though it had
  passed, like _owing to_, into a mere compound preposition".  But
  Fowler was writing in 1926; what hadn't happened then may well
  have happened by now.

  
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Usage Disputes: "due to"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 1559), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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