Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McClenahan's attitude with regard to English grammar is the type of blinded, presumptuous pedagogism that should not be tolerated in a Board of Education [TIME, Feb. 26]. For his "purism" the Doctor can doubtless cite any number of authorities-except the language self...
...quicker we get rid of it, the better. For authorities I refer the Doctor to any elementary course in linguistic science, and to Dr. Edward Sapir, [Sterling professor] of the Yale University Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and head of a committee to bring out a New English Grammar to describe the language as it really is instead of for harassing school children with artificial, pseudo-classical prescriptions and "rules"-or to anybody who has at least an inkling of the true nature of language and its principles...
...mistake in grammar ever grammatical...
Would not Purist Mac have been more pure, less "solecistic," even at the risk of being somewhat didactic, or even pedantic, had he said, ''Such errors in grammar are inexcusable...
...Time has not made obsolete all of Dickens' complaints but it has seen some of them answered. The open sewer that in his day meandered from Kensington Gardens into the Chelsea slums is there no longer; Dotheboys Hall is now an antique caricature; David Copperfields now toil in grammar schools instead of warehouses...