In a week that is seeing the Republican Party turn the USA into the largest example of state capitalism in the western world, one might have thought that there could be no more surprises.
How wrong one can be. Last week also witnessed a competing event – the publication by the Grauniad of a slim volume entitled "The Guardian Book of English Language", including advice on common spelling errors.
Another defining moment of post modernist inory?
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It was a brave decision for the Guardian, of all papers, to publish advice on the use of our language last week. What a shame it made no mention of the nomadic relative pronoun. Yesterday its sports caption author writes,neeath a photograph,
“Wasp’s Danny Cipriani is back in training after a rapid recovery from a serious ankle injury in May that has won the admiration of his coaches.”
And what precisely has won this admiration? May? A serious ankle injury? Certainly not the writer’s use of our language.
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