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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

How to respond to crotchety language critics

"Where are you coming from?"

"I won't tell you because you ended that sentence with a preposition."

"OK. Where are you coming from, you pompous ass?"

— From a fascinating book, The Glamour of Grammar, by Roy Peter Clark
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