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Penes to an end
Despite my grammatical obsessions, I'm nevertheless a staunch supporter of the idea that usage must ultimately triumph over dictum. Furthermore, a classical education is no excuse for pretentious, pseudo-Latin mangling.So it's great to see GrammarBlog paragon AA Gill extol these concepts in his food column this week. I ...
No manners but what a critic
I do enjoy broadsheet restaurant criticism.The best writers use a delightful combination of pretension, rudeness and malevolence. The unspoken concord between writer and reader - i.e. that this is just food and hence reviewing it is faintly ridiculous - provides the opportunity for gleeful childishness and linguistic showboating. GrammarBlog ...
Nice colon, Mr. Gill.
This week in his Times column, A.A. Gill, a man for whom a place at the GrammarBlog table is always set, proved that a well used colon is a beautiful thing.I started with a cup of coffee and a muffin. The coffee was made by someone I heard ...
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