The blogosphere has been faintly tittering over British critic's profane and public excoriation of the sub-editors at his paper over a word that they excised from a review of his. It's mildly entertaining, though I have to say I think it appeals more to the allegedly dryer British sense of humor, which tends to delight more in heaps of rather nasty and a little artless prose. Anyway, these poor schmucks dropped an 'a' from his final sentence, and he is much aggrieved. The reasons for his grief are many, and I won't address any but his last. I'll let Gruber sum up, and include his editorial:

Giles Coren, to his editors at The Times (London) for removing
the word "a" from the closing sentence of his review:

And worst of all. Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have
removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have
fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed
syllable. When you're winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial.
Can't you hear? Can't you hear that it is wrong? It's not fucking
rocket science. It's fucking pre-GCSE scansion. I have written 350
restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an
unstressed syllable. Fuck. fuck, fuck, fuck.

Coren is, of course, correct. The sentence was mutilated.

He's incorrect, in fact. The sentence might have been mutilated semantically, but metrically--his ultimate, dramatic thrust about a lost stressed syllable--is simply and demonstrably wrong.

Simply:

The resulting final feet are a series of simple iambs. Short-long, short-long, with a single anapest thrown in around "wondering."

 -   /   - -   /     -  /  -   /  

 and wondering where to go for nosh

"For a nosh" is an anapest, a short-short-long. So in both cases the piece ends with a stressed syllable, and you can claim that one is more metrically pleasing than the other; but his dramatic lead-up sadly ends flaccid. He can be pleased, anyway, that he has maintained his claimed record of never ending with a stressed syllable; though his scansion thus far leaves me with little confidence in the claim.