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The Chicago MOS editors, gurus of accuracy in formal writing, have printed a “best of” from their on-line Q&A. They remind us that rules and their judicial application serve a writer‘s goals and a reader‘s needs & understanding; rules should not enslave us. The responses to a wide range of queries are often funny & clever. Like the works of Kory Stamper, Steven Pinker, & David Crystal, it‘s a healthy response to Lynn Truss‘ pedantic scoldings.
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