Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with slu…

William Zinsser
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Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. ✨ William Knowlton Zinsser (1980). On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, HarperCollins Publishers
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Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. ✨ William Knowlton Zinsser (1980). On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, HarperCollins Publishers

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