Talk:smitten

smitten with/by
Fowler's smit reads

Its most frequent use is as the participle smitten, ‘infatuated, fascinated’. When the object of the fascination is a person, with is much more often used than by; when the object is inanimate, the pattern is the opposite.

What are the reasons for such choice? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:09, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
 * OED: https://oed.com/oed2/00228565 AND https://oed.com/oed2/00228536 --Backinstadiums (talk) 07:58, 17 March 2021 (UTC)