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...usually refer to the British Monarch as "George V,'' and couch the rest of the reference in language which suggests the outlook of a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt, rather than of the only newspaper with a modern orientated intelligence published in the Anglo-Saxon tongue...
...Correct English" is an unrealistic, pedantic legend, and the 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...
...would like 20 copies of TIME'S Letters Supplement No. 2. Will you kindly refer the order to the proper authority with the request that they be sent to me with the bill...
...lists), in an effort to avoid any further annoyance to the Catholic Church. One of these "don'ts" represents to my mind the farthest South in newspaper rules. That summer, when the St. Louis National Team was playing in the World Series, we were not permitted to refer to them as the Cardinals...
...Denver Post" have been held up in magazines and less full-blooded papers as the dual climax of bawdy journalism; they have been ridiculed as cranks and denounced as blackmailers their saga has been amplified and coloured even beyond its own rich Western blood-hue. And I refer to the Post anthropomorphically with reason; Bonfils dubbed it "The Big Brother," and such it remains...