I really enjoy discussing how language is used differently at different times and different places. I'm always baffled as to why one way or another would be considered "correct" usage.

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Interesting stuff, to be sure. I have a copy of "Usage And Abusage - A Guide To Good English" by Eric Fowler which first appeared in
the United States in 1942. In his Forward, the author mentions -
"To be fit for American publication, Professor W. Cabell Green
extensively annotated the work". On a purely personal level, I was
privileged to know the late William Benzie, author of a biography
about the founder of the Oxford English Dictionary. It intrigued me
that an Aberdonian living and teaching In Canada should write such
a work. I suppose that such a flexible language as English will
always be a subject for discussion - and long may it be so.

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Thanks for the comment. Of course, it's a little more complicated than that. ? http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

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I'm reminded of Alan Jay Lerner's wry lines given to Henry Higgins
about the correct use of English in his music masterpiece "My Fair Lady":
"They even are places where English completely disappears
In America they haven't used it for years." ?

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