Semantics nitpick: "among" vs. "between"

Posted Jan 21, 2007 19:39 UTC (Sun) by quintesse (guest, #14569)
In reply to: Semantics nitpick: "among" vs. "between" by AnswerGuy
Parent article: KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News)

It does not seem to be that clearcut though:

http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/chesson/between_and_amo...

http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/betweenamong.asp

http://www.bartleby.com/68/27/827.html

Especially the example "Economic relations between Great Britain, France, and Italy are tense at present" seems similar to the remark about the checker, doesn't it?