The Underground Grammarian
Richard Mitchell's
The
Underground Grammarian, a privately
published newsletter from Glassboro State College from the 70s and 80s,
primarily, is happily on the web. In the early days the author typeset it by
hand, but subsequently it was produced on a Macintosh. It was invariably
delightful to read.
From Volume 1, Number 1, January
1977:
"The Underground Grammarian is an unauthorised journal devoted to the protection of the Mother Tongue at Glassboro State College. Our language can be written and even spoken correctly, even beautifully. We do not demand beauty, but bad English cannot be excused or tolerated in a college. The Underground Grammarian will expose and ridicule examples of jargon, faulty syntax, redundancy, needless neologism, and any other kind of outrage against English."
"The Underground Grammarian is an unauthorised journal devoted to the protection of the Mother Tongue at Glassboro State College. Our language can be written and even spoken correctly, even beautifully. We do not demand beauty, but bad English cannot be excused or tolerated in a college. The Underground Grammarian will expose and ridicule examples of jargon, faulty syntax, redundancy, needless neologism, and any other kind of outrage against English."
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