When I was a young man I was typically disparaging about Americans and their mangling of our wonderful language, as I saw it. Why, I wondered, can’t they spell things properly? Why do they say “different than” rather than “different to”? Why do they say “I could care less” when, by any logic, it should be “I could not care l…
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