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The Limp Platitudes and Inconsistent Nonsense of Strunk & White

In my first semester of law school, I got into a brief classroom contretemps with an instructor over a matter of grammar. The instructor believed that a sentence of the form ‘there is a controversy...

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More on Singular “They”

Geoffrey K. Pullum at Language Log explains how usage of the singular “they” works and why it is grammatically sound. The discussion was prompted by a statement made by President Obama during the Henry...

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