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[supergee]

Lingua Franca looks at the tabu against beginning a sentence with "but" or "and." I do it myself, and I defend it with an argument from near-divine authority: The Authorized Version of the Bible does it all the time. Good enough for the King James Gang, good enough for me.

Comments

[marahmarie]

Tabu is a woman's perfume. But 'taboo' is probably what you want.

And yes, I saw what I did there. :)

[supergee]

That's an idiosyncrasy of mine. "Tabu" seems to convey more anthropological condescension than the current spelling because I used to see it used that way.

[marahmarie]

Cool. I have idiosyncrasies in my writing, too, mostly limited to my love of British spelling despite being from the USA.