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These are only accepted into the canon of good usage and literature after a long and vigorous rearguard action.
The British, who didn't go through the dislocation (and revivification) of a revolution, simple allowed the gentry to establish the colloquial norm for those who counted themselves among the educated, and mined the literature for texts to constitute a canon that would be taught as a stylistic and, as a by-product, grammatical model.
Holocaust memory, of course, becomes "institutionalized" in curricula; in a "canon" of Holocaust literature; more diffusely, institutionalized in popular--particularly Jewish--consciousness.