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We Are All Hillbillies Now

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I blame sportscasters, mostly. As the dumbing down of intellectual discourse in the U.S. continues to occur, the era is marked by certain characteristic grammatical mistakes. Solecisms which would have been corrected by style-mongers, or by proofreaders, in even the recent past, now go on to become the default standards…

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