About a year ago Geoffrey Pullum, one of the authors and editors of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, published a trenchant critique of Strunk and White's Elements of Style.  I believe there was brief discussion of the critique at the time, and the topic continues to come up on Language Log and other linguistic blog sites.  Pullum's critique is available at http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar-/25497/ and is worth a read-or a reread-as a critique of popular knowledge of grammar and even of grammatical knowledge among those of us apparently specialized in the area.  I'd be interested in what ATEG readers think of what Pullum has to say.

Herb

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