On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Steve Brust wrote: > I'd never in a million years have identified Mark as a prescriptivist. > Perhaps You've never seen http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/Whom-peeves.html - note the diaeresis in Ortho... Also note that prescriptivism doesn't have the best reputation in some parts. But consider my hero Fowler - he mocked those who insist on avoiding simple split infinitives. As in so many things there is a spectrum - no one on this list would advocate abandoning the distinction between "it's" and "its" because half the people on the internets have; I'm happy to end sentences with prepositions if that's where my head is at.