to in/with regard to in/with respect to in return for in search of in spite of in step with in touch with in terms of in the name of in view of on account of on behalf of on (the) grounds of on the part of on top of with a view to with the exception of Other complex prepositions The following complex prepositions do not follow either of the common structures for complex prepositions. à la (or a la) as soon as as well as close to due to far from in case other than per pro prior to pursuant to rather than regardless of subsequent to such as Archaic, dialectal, or specialized The following prepositions are not widely used in Present-Day English. Some, such as bating and forby, are archaic and typically only used to convey the tone of a bygone era. Others, such as ayond and side, are generally used only by speakers of a particular variety of English. Yet others are generally only used in specialized contexts, such as abaft in nautical settings and dehors in law. Prototypical prepositions abaft (nautical) abating (obsolete) abeam (nautical) ablow (Scottish and Irish English) aboon (rare) abouts (regional, U.S.) acrost (regional, Australia, England, and U.S.) adown (archaic; poetic; rare) a-eastell (obsolete; regional, Scotland) afore (archaic; regional, Southern and Midland U.S.; nautical) afornent (obsolete; regional, Scotland) afront (obsolete; regional) afterhand (rare; regional) again (regional) ahind (dialectal; archaic) ajax (Polari) alength (obsolete) alongst (regional, Scotland and U.S.) aloof (obsolete) alow (obsolete; regional, Scotland) amell (rare; regional, Northern England) amidmost (poetic) anear (archaic; regional) aneath (poetic; regional, Scotland) anent (obsolete; rare; regional, Scotland and Yorkshire) anewst (obsolete) anunder (regional, Northern England, Ireland, and Scotland) askant (archaic) asklent (regional, Northern England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland) astern (nautical) athwart (obsolete; dialectal; nautical) atour (regional, Scotland) atter (regional, Northern England, Southern U.S.) atween (archaic; dialectal) atwixt (archaic; dialectal) a-weather (nautical; obsolete) a-west (obsolete; regional, Scotland) awestell (obsolete; regional, Scotland) ayond, ayont (dialectal) bating (archaic) bedown (obsolete) be-east (obsolete; regional, Scotland) beforrow (obsolete) behither (obsolete) ben (dialectal, Scots) benorth (obsolete; regional, Scotland) besouth (obsolete; regional, Scotland) betwixt (archaic; poetical; dialectal) 'twixt (obsolete) bewest (obsolete; regional, Scotland) bongre (obsolete) bout (regional) bove (poetic; regional) 'cept (colloquial) contrair (obsolete) contrary (obsolete) cross (dialectal; poetic) dehors (law; rare) dot (mathematics) durante (obsolete) effore (obsolete) emong, emonges(t) (obsolete) endlong, endlonges, endlongs (dialectal; obsolete) enduring (obsolete; rare, South and South Midland U.S.)