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Created on Mar 18, 09
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Emily O's List: Writing
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Mar 18, 09
"To greatly excel"? Did you see that split infinitive?! An Atlantic proofreader did, and Chandler was questioned about his breach of grammatical correctness. He responded to the Atlantic's editor, Edward Weeks, on January 18, 1947 with the request that Weeks "convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois...and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so that it will stay split." The "error" stayed, as it should have, for Chandler knew that, despite centuries of editors, grammarians and teachers railing against the split infinitive, there really is nothing ungrammatical about it.
New York Times editors also know there's nothing wrong with a split infinitive, but they ask their writers to avoid them because, as one editor said, "we get letters from teachers." -
Mar 25, 09
A beautiful biography of Niciholas Hughes
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