Re: A sentence can't start with 'But'

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:26:10 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
<harvey.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 31 Dec 2005, Jim Lawton wrote
>
>> I think most regular posters here do try to write in
>> reasonably grammatical and punctuated English. If the
>> barbarians dilute that too far, then the group won't be so
>> interesting, or focussed.
>
>But I don't think you'll find any standard usage guide that insists
>that starting a sentence with "but" or "and" is a barbarism.

Fowler classified this as both "fetish" and "superstition" almost
eighty years ago.

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