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From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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Subject: Anthony Trollope born (24-4-1815)
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by: Ross Clark - Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:17 UTC

Somewhere sometime I picked up a copy of "The Warden", and finally got
around to reading it a couple of years ago. That's my only dollop of
Trollope. A lot of my reading works that way.

Crystal quotes a passage from his autobiography in which he ponders the
dilemma of wanting to write in a popular, natural sort of English while
still obeying the rules of grammar. He concludes that (if I may
paraphrase) you have to practise long and hard in order to be natural.

The autobiography is available online:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5978

Subject	Author
Anthony Trollope born (24-4-1815)	Ross Clark