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Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

From:charles <catty@...>
Date:Thursday, March 25, 1999, 22:58
> > This involves not using "split infinitives" (of course, no such > > thing has ever existed in English, the grammarians to the contrary). > > Ah! Another person agreeing with me on that issue. :-)
Otto Jesperson agreed too. He said that one might as well speak of a "split nominative" when an adjective interposes between an article and its noun.