Glamourous Grammar
“Today grammar connotes everything unglamourous: absentminded professors;
fussy schoolteachers; British grammazons…; nagging perfectionists; pedantic
correctionists; high school students asleep at their desks,
stalactites of drool hanging from their lips. Long lost from grammar are
associations with power, magic, enchantment and mystical energy.”
—Roy Peter Clark, wordman, writer, educator, journalist and author of
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and
Mystery of Practical English, 2010
• Editorial Comment: Today’s WORD dedicated to Conan the Grammarian. You know who you are.
• Related:
Kristen Hare, “What are your biggest grammar pet peeves?” Poynter.org
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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD
“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard
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