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How’s That, Again?
“We’re a team;” he said, “there isn’t a single person we couldn’t have done without and gotten here!” The speaker meant to praise his College World Series teammates for reaching the semi-finals, and you suspect what what he meant was … Continue reading
But I Digress
Things have come to a pretty pass indeed when you find that you want to decline even the pale comfort offered by grammarians. I will not be consoled. I’m talking about the word “but.” Things would be fine but that … Continue reading
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Tagged but, grammar, Herman Melville, higher education, humanities, John Churchill, Liberal Education, PBK, Phi Beta Kappa, The Piazza, William Wordsworth
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