Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins
The Careful Writer’s Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usage
Most people look back fondly at their early school years and wonder
whatever became of their childhood mentors. But when Theodore Bernstein
was contacted by his grade school English teacher, Miss Thistlebottom,
he took the opportunity to show her that her rigid teaching of antiquated
rules regarding English usage and those like her have left most people
feeling bound up in a writer’s straightjacket.
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