THE Reverend Wright

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not that I /object/ to the use of the article, but it seems overly formal
> and outmoded.

So, you don't find it totally shocking in some non-trivial sense,
after all. It's merely a whimsical matter of taste WRT to the proper
use of the English language in its written form.

I can understand that. After all, I myself am taken aback by the
construction of _headquarters_ with the plural, a matter of little or
no import to others.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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