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The Branson Pilgrim

Wherein the author spends a decade acquiring knowledge of country and/or western music, Elvis’s stillborn twin, Bidenomics in the wild, bathroom cruising, wax statuary, race relations, and the soul of the nation

All My Pronouns

by Anne Fadiman,

How I learned to live with the singular they

The Origins of Speech

by Tom Wolfe,

In the beginning was Chomsky

Stet offensive

by Harper’s Staff,

Sister Bernadette’s barking dog

by Kitty Burns Florey,

Grammar questions

by Lydia Davis,

Parse one for the Gipper

by Harper’s Staff,

The future of Anglo-American

by Anthony Burgess,

The coming revolution in teaching English

by Andrew Schiller,

A proficient grammarian

by Harper’s Staff,

The case against grammar

by Robert Palfrey Utter,

Grammar

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The Branson Pilgrim

All My Pronouns

The Origins of Speech

Stet offensive

Sister Bernadette’s barking dog

Grammar questions

Parse one for the Gipper

The future of Anglo-American

The coming revolution in teaching English

A proficient grammarian

The case against grammar

February 1920

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