From: TURTLE              
To: DRAGONFLY           
Subject: Whoops...      
Date & Time: 05/05/91 23:36:53
Message Number 16564

>Sorry. According to Webster's, ...
 
Webster is a friggin' upstart.
 
>Where's the source for your information?
 
The Oxford Handbook of Standard English Usage...you know, the tome that
sneers at use of the word "towards" and thinks that people who use the
word "hopefully" as an adjective ought to be shot. Okay, okay, I'll
admit it; when it comes to English grammar you are unlikely to find
anybody anywhere who's more conservative than I am...unless maybe you
count George Will.