Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!

[Herb Stahlke]

One slight quibble with the "9 famous quotes..." piece.  On the "split
infinitive," Harbeck attributes the mythical prohibition to an 18th c.
grammarian.  David Mulroy points out in his *War against Grammar *(Heinemann
2003)* *that after an extensive search he could find no reference to a rule
against splitting infinitives before the mid 1860s.

Herb


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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