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Show "None Is" or "None Are."? All tho friends of llber'y of Bpeech owe gratitude to Prof. Lfounsbury of Yale for his defense In Hnrper's Magazine of tho uso of "none" as tho subject of n plural verb. What Idiot ' preclslonlst It wns that started tho ' movement to schoolmaster that uso of "nono" out of existence wo do not know, but his effort has had n deplor- able degree of success. An awful example ex-ample ought to bo mado of somo of the grammarians who try to make language confoim to nil s Instead of making rules conform to language. It will tnko yonrB to untwl? tho tongues of worthy people who havo compelled themselves to say "none1 Is" when their consentlnl Impulse was to say "nono are." Harper's Weekly. |