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Much ado about an indefinite article

I do love a good copy editing/grammar squabble, particularly when it gets blown up into profane e-mail declarations like this one. The gist: British restaurant critic Giles Coren became enraged upon seeing that the editors at his newspaper, The Times, took out the word “a” in the last paragraph of his column. He wrote a long, rambly, profane, bossy, mean-spirited e-mail to anyone and everyone who could have possibly allowed such an egregious error to…

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