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I created this page after finding there was none despite the comparable page on the far more recent MAU by Garner. Praise for Follet's MAU by by august figures of American letters suggest that if Garner is notable enough, so is Follett. The page on the man is even more in need of expansion than this page for I could find hitherto almost nothing on his life apart from this posthumous publication. Iph (talk) 09:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Lest anyone reading these comments conclude that, if anything, Follett was excessively traditional or prescriptive, it is worth quoting briefly from Follett's entry on the commonest English conjunction in which he is at pains to sweep away what he considers a long-outdated and erroneous stricture:
"and. A prejudice lingers from the days of schoolmarmish rhetoric that a sentence should not begin with and. The supposed rule is without foundation in grammar, logic or art. ... "
This may be so, but citation please. Without it, it's unsourced editorializing. 86.151.4.97 (talk) 00:43, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
