This week's sermon is chiefly about false analogy, one of the major ills that plague (not plagues"the subject is plural, ills) our once reasonably healthy English.Is anything more parlous than the state of our beloved mother tongue? Well, not mine actually, but at any rate stepmother tongue. It may be a kind of haughtiness, but I wince whenever I encounter an offense against grammar, spelling or pronunciation. If onl…
SOURCE: John Simon at 12:37AM on April 9, 2011