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fixed the grammar in the "Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography" example

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Line 60: ** This is likely an [[Write Who You Know\|exaggeration of his own mother]], a community-college English professor who raised her children with songs about grammar mistakes and pretending to go into a coughing fit whenever one of them used a solecism (which Wallace in retrospect admitted was rather chilling). On the other hand, she never got ''nearly'' as grammar-crazy (much less anything else-crazy) as [[Stepford Smiler\|Avril Incandenza]]... * Josephine Anwhistle from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' is a perfect example of a typical Grammar Nazi, going so far as to pointing out Sunny Baudelaire's utterances as nonsense even if she's yet to speak coherently. Played with somewhat in that she uses bad grammar to relay a secret message to the Baudelaires. Unfortunately she corrects the [[Axe Crazy]] villain's grammar as well... * Most members on the noble side of mysterious organization V.F.D. are revealed to be this, in ''[[Lemony Snicket: ~~the~~The Unauthorized Autobiography]]''. Another editor's note in the latter stated that "Some of the photographs in this book were taken by Julie Blattberg", which was promptly followed by a note from Mr. Snicket reading: {{quote\|''To My Kind Editor,'' ''Please rewrite another editor's note to read as follows:''