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That is not to say that writing and speech should be measured by the same yardsticks, only that writing cannot be ignored in a proper treatment of language.
A TV reporter standing in a suburban neighborhood yesterday: "Some people use yardsticks to measure how much snow we've had.
Healthy societies need a decent supply of verbal taboos and prohibitions, if only as yardsticks by which ordinary people can measure and define themselves.