The Pedants' Society

Fellow No. 00388

Rev. Barry Brady

Admitted April 1965 · F.

Challenged the Annual Dinner's toast list in 1973, on the ground that "the Language" cannot be toasted in the accusative. The toast is now proposed in the vocative, to be safe.

Struck Off, June 1987. Reason: publication of an opinion piece in favour of the singular 'they', 2014.
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