> BTW: Shouldn't it have been "What the hell brought on THAT?" <grin>
> 
> (Insert Winston Churchill quotation here.)

Mark,
You do know why American split infinities, don't you? It's because Fowler*
actually approved of the practice--he thought it was pedantic to disallow it
categorically. We promptly stopped teaching grammar in grammar schools and
have been happily splitting our infinitives ever since.

--Mike

*p. 558 ff.

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