The Pedants' Society

Fellow No. 00238

Mr Bernard O'Brien

Admitted June 1920 · F. (fr.)

Wrote to the BBC in its first year of broadcasting, beginning a correspondence on the pronunciation of "controversy" the BBC describes internally, the Society understands, as "the controversy".

Struck Off, August 1947. Reason: admission that the Oxford comma 'doesn't really matter'.
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