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At great risk of being the next person tarred and feathered, perhaps we need to think of these pursuits - teaching and describing - like an anthropologist and a policeman. One merely notes what it happening as scientific study and the other tries to ensure the society mores and norms, as codified...

Hello MH and CJ I think BrE does tend to avoid the subjunctive 'be'. (Is this because indicative 'be' was common in rustic dialects, before we all turned to EstuaryE, I wonder? 'You be a-trespassin' on 'is Lordship's land, young master' etc.) I would listen twice if I heard #2. Sometimes it's...