Here’s an old chestnut — it was noticed and authoritatively corrected a hundred years ago – that I’ve come across rather a lot lately in the prose of respectable writers.
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Here’s an old chestnut — it was noticed and authoritatively corrected a hundred years ago – that I’ve come across rather a lot lately in the prose of respectable writers.