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Might ‘may’ kill ‘might’?

Kingsley Amis [Getty Images] 
issue 01 August 2020

‘I’m with the King,’ said my husband. The king in question was Kingsley Amis, whose choleric The King’s English was published posthumously in 1997. The joke in the title depended on knowing two things: that there was an earlier book on English usage of that name (by the brothers H.W.

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