Thanks, Herb--always happy to see prescriptive grammarians take a lick.
Somebody once wrote (and I paraphrase) that English teachers were the
morticians of the language and that, once a certain feature or "rule" died
out, they were the only ones at the funeral.

John

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stahlke, Herbert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The Subject line is not original.  It comes from an interesting article in
> the Wall Street Journal
>
>
> http://www.livemint.com/2012/07/30210221/English-and-the-language-polic.html
>
> about the recent demise of the Queen's English Society.
>
> Herb
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