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For a (scholarly) rant about The Elements of Style, try Pullum:

'The book's style advice, largely vapid
& obvious, may do little damage; but the numerous statements about grammatical correctness are actually harmful. They are riddled with inaccuracies, uninformed by evidence, and marred by bungled analysis. "Elements" is a dogmatic bookful of bad usage advice, and the people who rely on it have no idea how badly off-beam its grammatical claims are'
https://lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/LandOfTheFree.pdf

@stancarey ooh, this is so good.

@db It's a very satisfying dissection