I knew Strunk's wife when I lived in Maine.
No, wait a minute -- that was Jud's wife I knew.
Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:41:36 -0400 Craig Froehle said:
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>> On 6/1/07, Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:29:00 -0500 Alli said:
>>> What if I don't know the person is a "he"?
>>>
>> Doesn't matter. If unknown or known to be a male, use "his."
>>
>> Strunk & White know all.
>>
>
> Strunk & White is also quite old. It was old when I was in high school
> 25 years ago. Some aspects of language do change, and English has
> pretty much always been fluid.
>
>
--
/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
