427: Come, Try, and Go Feb 8, 2016

The ever pedantic writer of Marry Poppins, P. L. Travers, was unhappy about the line, "let's go fly a kite" in the movie. Why‽ A short list of verbs traditionally should be followed by 'and', such as 'come', 'try' and 'go'. This practice can be traced back to Old English, but now it is seen as informal in English, or even informal.