hmmm. Think it was one of the dailies but.

Can’t find the file with Anu’s citation, but here’s where I used the same quote a while back:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=theme&Number=18236


I also just found this quotation in David Crystal’s ‘Words on Words’ (pub Penguin Books, 2000):

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. ~ HL Mencken, 1919, The American Language