One of our readers sent us a link to an item from the BBC News Magazine, from 20 July last year, on Americanisms. It is well worth looking at. Thanks, Katherine! The article reads that thousands responded: any additions from … Continue reading
Fourth Conference on Prescriptivism: for the call for papers, click on the link above.
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Last week, the 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics was held at Zürich University in Switzerland. On Monday afternoon, the conference was opened with a word of welcome by the president of the university Andreas Fischer, who is also an English historical … Continue reading
In case you were worried that we were no longer interested in your views on usage, here, at last, is our 8th usage poll. It includes items 36-40 from the survey by Mittins et al. (1970). As before, we are … Continue reading
I heard this one last night from my (British) brother-in-law: There used to be only three vowels before You and I. Any other such jokes? In English or any other language?
And today I found the book itself (see previous post): thanks for this, Carol Percy, and congratulations on the book. The book includes various articles that are of interest to the Bridging the Unbridgeable project, but the article I will … Continue reading
This morning, I found the following email from Carol Percy in my mailbox This email is being sent to the addresses of people who presented and/or attended and/or in some way supported the 2009 conference on Prescriptivism & Patriotism. I … Continue reading
The Bridging the Unbridgeable project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, abbreviated as NWO in Dutch, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Invariably, Microsoft Outlook corrects this into NOW: very annoying, as it results in a stupid typo … Continue reading
Bridging the Unbridgeable 