The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten additional years to a man’s life.
— Philip Doddridge, who overestimates my baseline waking hour by at least two hours. So apparently I’m missing out on twenty additional years.
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… The rules do matter - it’s just that obeying them doesn’t. … The stickler-advocated rules of spelling, grammar and punctuation slow the speed of change and allow the language to remain united. They’re as important to the continued strength of English as the internet’s power to coin new usages.