Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: Theodore M. BernsteinThe old adage 'rules are made to be broken' has never been as well defended as here. Bernstein asserts that we have been indoctrinated with English usage rules that lack flexibility and evoke fear, confusion and frustration in writers. There are times when splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence with a preposition makes sense. Through a series of one sided correspondences with 'Bertha Thistlebottom', an archetypal grade school English teacher,