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Bug#51879: PROPOSAL: package may be maintained by a group



On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:53:05AM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:

>     Well, it's a really obscure nit in the US now that the American
> language has become so, uh, relaxed, but...

And in every other major English speaking country too...

> I believe the official rule is "may not end a sentence with a
> preposition."  You also switched articles from "the" to "this".

Official how? There's no-one in charge of the English language so there's
no-one to declare anything official. You mean the one you were taught at
school? It was wrong then and is even more wrong now.


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