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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