Ask your local neighborhood smarty pants a question about English grammar or usage -- any question at all -- and chances are she’ll give you an answer. Ask any gathering of two or more smarty pantses the same question and chances are they’ll give you conflicting answers, then spend hours arguing about whose is right.

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