The Language Wars (Sigh)

“Define the 1 percent however you want–the upper echelons of commerce, government, culture, academia, even the British royal family–and you’d be hard-pressed to argue that they are paragons of correct usage and good style. For quite some time now the language connoisseurs have been schoolteachers, writers of letters to the editor, and ink-stained wretches on Grub Street (and their digital descendants).”