Scalia the SNOOT 
Justice Antonin G. Scalia, who recently revealed his annoyance at flight attendants who fail to properly use verbs in the subjunctive mood, shed some light on why he’s such a stickler for proper grammar.
“I had a lot of background in language. I had two years in French and German,” Scalia recently told PBS news host Charlie Rose, according to a transcript of the discussion from our sister company Federal News Service.
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