As long as teachers disagree, textbooks vary, and students are given conflicting or opposing regulations for specific items of usage, the teaching of usage will be ineffective and of low repute. Clearly there is a need for the setting of standards.
-- Robert C. Pooley, "What Is Correct English Usage?" NEA Journal (December 1960), in Classics in Composition 244 (Donald E. Hayden ed., 1969).
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