Glenn M Stewart
1 min readJun 9, 2024

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I haven't noticed this issue. Also, my views to reads ration seems fairly consistent but I haven't tried to calculate the exact ratio just eyeballed it. Publication has been pretty good although I had one pedant reject a piece because I refused to change one sentence that was not exactly grammatically correct. Here is the sentence.

"For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s we have a nostalgia for the certainties of the Cold War. "

Perfectly correct English would be: "For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s a nostalgia exists for the certainties of the Cold War."

However, English is an extremely flexible language and I deliberately wanted to highlight the we/us which is why I wrote the sentence the way that I did. The meaning is clear even if the grammar is not absolutely correct.

As Winston Churchill once said, "This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

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Glenn M Stewart
Glenn M Stewart

Written by Glenn M Stewart

Pugilist, polemicist, Oxford Arabist, financial mastermind, international man of mystery, film producer, playwright, part-time-poet, full-time provocateur…

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