Jimmy and his fellow club members used to troll the Omnipedia looking for righteous battle–wrongs that needed righting. The fact that none of them possessed more than a layman’s knowledge of history, sociology, or other popular topics was utterly beside the point.

There was always grammar and spelling.

Cam, for instance, went into a rage whenever he saw the word ’till’ used instead of ‘until.’ Which was a lot. “Tilling is something you do with farm dirt, not time!”

Then there was Remy, who’d taken it upon himself to add the rapidly-fading word ‘whom’ back into popular parlance, liberally sprinkling it across user-edited entries as esoteric as ‘Carcinogens’ or ‘The Panic of 1837.’

They all were united in an opposition to the sinister incursion of British spellings like ‘programme’ and ‘colour.’ “Just because the damn Brits conquered the world they think they can shove their unnecessary letters down our throats!” Jimmy had been heard to remark. The fact that there were equally active groups actively seeking to promulgate British wordiness only served to incite furious edit wars that seesawed back and forth for weeks.

And then things started getting out of hand.