Monthly Archives: November 2013

Just out!

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

This is how Clive Upton, editor of English Today, announces the start of our new regular feature in English Today. We are very happy with the opportunity offered to us by the editors of English Today, and hope to receive … Continue reading →

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Soda, Pop, Coke – Ways of investigating language variation

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Carmen Ebner

As I am preparing for my fieldwork, which I will be conducting in early 2014 in and around London, I am looking into ways of investigating language variation and usage attitudes in general. Usage attitudes in particular are a very delicate … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Clarkson on car journalists and “generic he”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Inge Otto

Jeremy Clarkson, whom many of us might know from the British television show TopGear, in his column of October 2013 worries about things other than cars. Right. What could that be? you might think. Well, from the outside, most of … Continue reading →

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Usage problems, usage questions?

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

In the under-water screen to this blog, we can see how (new) people got to our blog, what they are interested in, and also what they are seeking usage advice on. The most frequent usage questions that people have recently … Continue reading →

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Traditional and contemporary furniture

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

One of our readers asked about the collocation of traditional and contemporary, as in the example above. The question was item 4 in our first usage poll, which we carried out a while ago (but which is still open). It was … Continue reading →

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Mini-exhibition on Sir Ernest Gowers

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

There have been various posts in this blog on Sir Ernest Gowers (1880-1966), one of our major usage guide writers, so high time for a mini-exhibition showing some of our finds, as well as illustrating his legacy as the writer … Continue reading →

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Between you and I in a 17th-century love story

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

Reading a selection of journal entries in Bridget Cusack’s Everyday English 1500-1700 (EUP, 1998) I came across what we classify as between you and I in one of the texts, and not once but twice. The writer of the journal is Roger … Continue reading →

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