Pretty much every great English writer uses it freely: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9364411" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9364411</a>. Also, listen to how people really speak, and you&#x27;ll find that everybody puts it in their sentences without noticing.<p>The funny thing is that in terms of actual usage, it&#x27;s uncontroversial and has been for 600 years. The debate about it is a real-life version of the joke, &quot;I can see it will work in practice, but will it work in theory?&quot;