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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lee Fredrickson who wrote (1380)	8/17/1998 5:07:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

I heard on NPR this weekend that the Oxford English Dictionary is allowing the splitting of infinitives. No longer do we need to silently invoke Patrick Stewart "to go boldly"! A fellow at the OED was interviewed, and he was not entirely happy with the change. By way of explanation (and rather archly) he offered this memorable summation: "Grammar is the engine of meaning in language". I like that; I'll have to use it once in a while to flash-freeze a dinner conversation...