Maybe it's one of those odd internet-driven adaptations of the language, something someone decided made more sense, which has become conventional through being splattered on enough sites that people started to wonder if they were spelling it incorrectly when they weren't. Language has this oddly malleable, gyroscopic quality. After being bullied throughout the 80s with American Heritage and Chicago Tribune Manual of Style, then rediscovering this strangely nationalistic pride in Canadian Gage during the 90s, and then this weirdly blended British-American-Canadian internet driven mishmash, I'll be damned if I know the rules anymore. I start to snicker a bit hysterically when editors get all uptight and righteous about things like commas though.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2010-04-06 02:27 pm (UTC)