November 15, 2002
Where Have All the Proofreaders Gone?
"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." Remember that? It was once one of the best-known, most-often-repeated advertising slogans in America. At one point in the course of its long life, it was even incorporated into a series of television commercials that turned on its shaky grammar.
No doubt inspired by real complaints from schoolteachers and purists, the spinoff commercials began with the usual assertion, whereupon some Mrs. Grundy figure (as long as we're this far down
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