An excellent email responding to my article today on the new Oath of Allegiance immigrants will take at their naturalization ceremonies. It’s from a “red-pencil-wielding teacher,” who says: “Here’s the second sentence: ‘My fidelity and allegiance from this day forward is to the United States of America.’ That ‘is’ should be ‘are,’ since the subject of the sentence is plural (‘fidelity and allegiance’), not singular. But should we be surprised that bureaucrats so enamored of dangerously wishy-washy language should also be semi-literate?”