TOO MUCH ZEAL
Charged with defacing A.K.P. notices put up by Hoi born I loro ugh Council by writing on tlieni. a citizen told the Clerkenwel'l magistrate he did so because one of them contained a split infinitive, and he wanted to show up the inefficiency of the authorities. Alas for this public-spirited but too hasty gesture! (says Mr 1). li. Wyudhain Lewis) The split infinitive doesn’t invariably matter. School masters and pedants may roar that it always does, but the great Fowler, whose canc is over in his lily band, gives them a very dirty look indeed in ‘ Modern F.nglish Usage’ and practically calls them cakeeaters ami poops. “We will split infinitives rather than be ambiguous or artificial,’’ thunders Slogger Fowler, tucking up bis cull's and motioning to the Head Masters' Conference to bend over.
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Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 3
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136TOO MUCH ZEAL Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 3
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