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

[Doug Winter]

On Fri 04 Jul David Damerell wrote:
> >No it's not.  IIRC infinitives in latin cannot be split, since they are
> >a single word, so how can it be a rule from Latin?
> 
> 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.

doug.

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