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  • Earlier he quotes the old Roman grammarian's saying "books have their own destiny."

    Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

  • Earlier he quotes the old Roman grammarian's saying "books have their own destiny."

    Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

  • The trouble with descriptivism—the idea that the grammarian's job is to describe the language, not to issue judgments about propriety—isn't that it's theoretically unsound.

    Grappling Grammarians Barton Swaim 2011

  • Or from a grammarian's perspective, the liar, in typing the lie, literally leaves out "who" did whatever the action is.

    Weblogs 2009

  • Or from a grammarian's perspective, the liar, in typing the lie, literally leaves out "who" did whatever the action is.

    Cornell University and Lying Online 2009

  • Or from a grammarian's perspective, the liar, in typing the lie, literally leaves out "who" did whatever the action is.

    July 2009 2009

  • Or from a grammarian's perspective, the liar, in typing the lie, literally leaves out "who" did whatever the action is.

    Cornell University and Lying Online 2009

  • It's a worthy goal, yes, but did Disney have to describe it with a grammarian's nightmare like “plussing”?

    Plussing 2006

  • Each of the grammarian's daughters strike out to earn their fortune during the course of the story, and to aid them along their way, mom gives each of them various parts of the human language: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions.

    February 29th, 2008 douglascohen 2008

  • A grammarian's soul - nay, the soul of a writer of functional English - cringes at the sight!

    between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006

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