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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1519575920100915]Journalist, author and grammarian Edwin Newman passed away in England last month, according to a CBS news announcement yesterday.  He was 91.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Damn.  I read Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue during college, thirty-plus years ago.  I may've already been a grammar Nazi, but Newman showed me it could be a noble -- albeit hopeless -- cause.  One of my most vivid memories from those books is his citing the pretentiousness of California Governor Jerry Brown's statement about riding in a limousine to a ceremonial function (his swearing-in, if I remember right):  "I cannot relate to that material-possessory consciousness." 
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.