Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!

[Shapiro, Fred]

Very interesting, Jon.  If one includes the restrictive "that" vs. "which" controversy (American copyeditors see their main function in life as changing restrictive "which" to "that," but I believe that in Britain the preference is the reverse), many of the most famous literary quotations seem "wrong" to literary Americans.

Fred Shapiro



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http://news.yahoo.com/9-famous-quotes-technically-grammatically-incorrect-065300736.html

You will be shockedshocked.

JL

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