I haven’t posted for some time on the Possessive Antecedent Proscription (PAP), a fictitious principle of English usage/grammar that bars possessive-marked nouns as antecedents for personal pronouns, as in this NYT front-page headline on October 9: Astor’s Son Is Convicted of Stealing From Her Astor’s (referring to Brooke Astor, “the legendary New York society matriarch”) … Continue reading Just In: NYT Violates PAP!