This is just what I keep saying about all the moral panics we seem to have about the state of English as it is currently developing. This article puts it amusingly:
"We have linguists in universities up and down the country, scientifically studying how language is used, showing that much of the conventional wisdom on language - and many of Humphrys' assertions and opinions - is factually wrong. Yet somehow these books still get published by people such as Humphrys, simply because he can use language well. I can breathe extremely well - I have done it for many years, to a consistently high standard - yet no one seems the slightest bit interested in my ideas about respiratory biology."
Just so.
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04 December 2004
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