Word: grammarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vowell, who presides with consonance over the university's writing lab in Emporia, Kans., offers free guidance on a writer's hot line, a Dial-a-Grammarian service for students and anyone else who calls with a question about correct usage. Other such lines have sprung up lately at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., and the Johnson County Community College near Kansas City, Kans. "We get several calls a week from California alone," says Arkansas English Instructor Michael Montgomery. The most common questions concern the correct use of who vs. whom, and which vs. that...
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Bravo for Richard Mitchell [Jan. 29]. Every city in the U.S. that has a newspaper, TV station or radio station needs an Underground Grammarian to guard against further deterioration of the English language and to re-create in the mind and ear of the public a sense of pride in the ability to communicate accurately...
Nine times a year Mitch raises a deafeningly militant clatter, pumping from his venerable machine 1,800 copies of the latest issue of the Underground Grammarian, which must rank as the most inflammatory broadsheet to come out of Philadelphia since Tom Paine published Common Sense...
...America. His family is similarly enchanted; one of them chortles at the notion of a liberty so unrestricted that "you can say 'you' to the President." (English is one of the few tongues without familiar and formal pronouns; thus the notion of American freedom begins with the grammarian...