The Pedants' Society

Fellow No. 00305

Miss Honoria Lacey

Admitted September 1943 · Assoc.

Spent eleven years compiling a card-index of split infinitives in The Times, abandoned in 1985 on the grounds that the project had become disheartening.

Struck Off, February 1968. Reason: the use, in a published article, of "decimate" in its modern sense, with reference to the 1962 Vote on the Vocative.
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