From [Coudal](http://69.36.40.53/archives/2006/07/common_errors_i.php) via [John Gruber]() comes this [list of common non-errors](http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html) in English. The first item on the list is split infinitives, and of course they give as an example the most famous split infinitive in Modern English: *”… to boldly go where no man has gone before”* (to give it its original, non-PC reading).
I can’t be the first person to notice that this phrase is (nearly) in [iambic pentameter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter), which is the standard meter for blank verse in English. So “correcting” the grammar ruins the poetry of the phrase (such as it is), but I rarely see this pointed out. Both [William Shatner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner) and [Patrick Stewart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart) were classically trained, so *they* must have noticed…