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Who gets to decide what are the inviolable rules of English?

Nobody. One can glean the grammatical rules of a language by observing and recording how users of that language acutally write and speak.



Preacher, meet choir. Thanks, though. That's kind of why I addressed the question to the "adamant prescriptivists", the kind who submit entries to that LSU list.

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