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"Between each" and Other Constructions with Fewer than Two Objects

English Language & Usage Asked on December 14, 2020

Page 112 of Garner’s fourth edition reads

✳Between each and Other Constructions with Fewer than Two Objects

This phrasing is a peculiar brand of illogic, ✳between each
house/speech
,instead of, properly, between speeches and between every two houses
(native speakers of English don’t consciously think
of the phrase as between each house and the next).

However I don’t fully grasp its point.

Does between each house and the next mean the same as "between houses"?

Why don’t native speakers consciously think of it as such?

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