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Subject:Re: grammar - knowing the rules to break them From:wburns -at- MICRON -dot- COM Date:Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:19:08 MDT
Wolf writes:
>The Latinate conventions were largely imposed by one fellow who
>wrote a book of grammar in the 1700s. (Sadly, I do not have the name of the
>reference to hand.)
Bishop Louth was the name I always heard.
Bill Burns *
Assm. Technical Writer/Editor * LIBERTY, n. One of imagination's most
Micron Technology, Inc. * precious possessions.
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