England's answer to William Strunk and E.B. White (a few decades on) is a cute, white-haired retired businessman named Nevile Martin (N.M.) Gwynne. Gwynne has taken it upon himself to lead the motherland back to a more grammatically correct time. When, exactly, that was is anyone's guess, because, apparently, bemoaning the disintegration of proper grammar has been a national pastime for centuries (one that some of us here in the Colonies have taken up with great vigor):
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