I have penned before on how Robert Lowth (may his name go down in infamy) created many of the grammar rules that plagued us all as children, and continue (if truth be told) to plague me. Now, it turns out, the that-which distinction was also created from whole cloth (presumably printed with a scattering of dictionary definitions) by Henry Watson Fowler in 1926. Take that, all you grammar nazis.
Feeling much better now.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. -Terry Pratchett
2 comments:
i'd say i'm sorry to be a 'grammar nazi' as you so call hem, but i was taught by you :P
-snapdragon
Oh,my dear snapdragon, you're not a grammar nazi; just, ah, precise.
Love, djinn
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