Illiteracy in the New York Times
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ahha, found it! i knew someone sent me something about this a while back. a quite from Neil Gaiman that fits quite well:
And I shrug, and look at the Apostrophe Protection Society site and remember, as an interested young man, attending a meeting of the Queen's English Society, which sounds very important, but which consisted of several people sitting in a chilly church hall somewhere in Sussex saying things to each other in a shocked voice like:
"I mean, he used anticipate to mean expect!"
"Well, that's not as bad as using hopefully to mean one hopes"
and so on, for several hours. Then there was tea and cakes.
(the context is an argument over why he prefers "FAQ's" over "FAQs," reader response, grammarbook.com's insistance that it's entirely optional, and him being fed up with the whole thing.)