This sign was taken in South Wales on a road trip! We were understandably amused by this sign, which warns us not to 'walk or sit on rocks about to be washed by the sea'. I think they meant for us not to 'walk or sit on rocks about to be washed into the sea', probably a case of differing lexical priming whereby the Welsh are primed to use 'by' in ways where we use 'into', or could also mean 'into by', but is a short version of it (e.g. 'washed into the sea by the sea').
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