> > I go back to the most famous split infinitive in American English: "To boldly go where no man has gone before." Would you have had Kirk say "To go boldly where no man has gone before" or "Boldly to go where no man has gone before"?
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> "Boldly to go" is clumsy, sure. But I harbour a suspicion that the only reason you dislike "to go boldly" is because it's not the way you're used to hearing the phrase. ;-)

I think it has something to do with the poetic rhyming pattern going on there: "To bOldly gO..."

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