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Old July 25th 03, 01:21 PM
David Megginson
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"Henry Kisor" writes:

Don means that the absurd grammar-Nazi "rule" about split
infinitives has no real basis in English except that it was a Latin
grammar rule. And we all know what happened to that language.


It became French.


All the best,


David

p.s. ... and Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, and
probably a few others I've forgotten, but just "French" is funnier.

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