". . . shameful righteous priggery. . . ."

Sedayne, from reading your posts, up until now I've considered you a pretty reasonable guy, but I think I'm going to have to revise my opinion. It sounds like you've gone 'round the bend. You've taken something that started out as twitting WAV (who professes to be a wordsmith) for making a grammatical error, and since you tend to make that same error yourself, you've become ego-involved and blown the matter all out of proportion. I have seldom seen anyone get this emotionally caught up in defending a minor grammatical boo-boo. Amazing!

Of course, one possible tack would be to defend such mistakes in grammar as "folk tradition."

By the way, there should be a comma between "shameful" and "righteous," unless you mean to say that it is the righteousness that is shameful rather than the priggery, in which case it should read "shamefully righteous priggery."

No need to thank me.

Don Firth