That’s a bit unfair on Fowler’s Modern English Usage, it’s much more descriptive than prescriptive. Rather take aim at what (IIRC, correctly) Stephen King called “that Nazi little book” Strunck and White which is prescriptive, scolding, and wrong.
ETA adding in un in front of fair
Huh? What is your cringe based off of? 
Fair enough, but mightn’t we grant the brilliant Brian Bilston some poetic license?
I was wondering was that a designated second, subtle mistake in the first verse and perhaps there are others?
Won or too, perhaps.
The kid is upstairs in bed, and says to his dad: "Why did you bring the book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?
Pretty sure we learned about that case in First Year Latin…Nominad’ve, genid’ve, dad’ve, accusad’ve, ablad’ve, and y’all’d’ve?
The dad’ve is where you say things like “Salve esuriens, pater sum”, right?
Lissen Y’all, DOUBLE SPACING IS A HERITAGE, NOT A MISTAKE! I learned it in the trenches. Microsoft Word 2003, baby. Times New Roman. 12 pt. font. Papers due by midnight.
You want me to unlearn years of pure muscle memory? Ugggggh.
I don’t double space to be fancy. I double space because I respect the period. I give her room to breathe. I honor her pause. I grew up in a time when punctuation was sacred and grammar still had elders.
But fiiiiiiine. I love my editors. Especially copy editors. So, I’ll stop.
I’ll conform to your modern, minimalist, space-deprived-ass dystopia. Just know this: somewhere, deep in my soul that my thumb is STILL pressing the space bar twice.
And it always will.
A word with 6 a’s in it!
