[Gllug] There are no regular verbs in English (seriously OT!!)

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 4 Jul 2003, Doug Winter wrote:
>On Fri 04 Jul David Damerell wrote:
>>Not to interject some facts into the discussion, but Mr. Joly is
>>largely correct; the split infinitive "rule" is the result of
>>Victorian linguists feeling that since infinitives cannot be split in
>>Latin, they should not be in English.
>Not to interject some logic, but you are in fact saying it's not a rule
>from Latin it's a rule from Victorian linguists.

Not really, no; it's drawn _from_ Latin _by_ Victorians.

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