Re: Which comes first

Subject: Re: Which comes first
From: Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:21:20 -0800

I heard on the news yesterday that the newest Oxford dictionary explicitly
states that the rule against splitting infinities is now officially defunct.
In other words, "to boldly go. . ." goes. :-)

Toni

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Miller [SMTP:smiller -at- PORTAL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 11:45 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Which comes first
>
> My editor would always say "set manually." But she's a stickler about that
> split infinitive thing, which is what I think this is, and the most famous
> one being "to boldly go..."
>
> - Scott Miller
>

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