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Friday, September 17, 2010

"Us the People", yeah right

Sloane Fowler, an 11th grade student at David Duke High School in Millsboro, Delaware, writes:

Dear Mr. Grammer Genious,

Senator-Elect Christine O’Donnell of our great state of Deleware (the first state) said after her election the other day, “Don't ever underestimate the power of we the people.”

My English teacher Mr. Gumm says she should of said “of us the people” because of some preposicion, or something like that. Is he right? I think he is a liberal.

- Yours truly, Sloane Fowler

Dear Sloane,

Hasn’t your so-called teacher ever read the Declaration of Independance? The words “We The People” are written right up there at the top, in big letters. So, first of all, why are they hiring people in our schools that have never even read the Declaration of Independance? And second of all, anybody that thinks “us the people” sounds like good English shouldn’t be teaching anything, let alone English. I am appalled.

- The Grammer Genious

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