Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage d…

Bill Bryson
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Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern.
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