Monthly Archives: September 2012

Snuck in Canadian English?

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

If snuck is very common in British and American English (see elsewhere on this blog), how about Canadian or other Englishes? I found the following example in Margaret Atwood‘s The Blind Assassin (2000): People snuck off to Stratford or London … Continue reading →

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The Art of Usage Guides

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Cynthia Lange

This morning, while I was browsing around one of my favorite websites brainpickings.org, I came across an article which mentions the 2005 edition of William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s classic The Elements of Style. This edition is illustrated by … Continue reading →

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Prescription conference proceedings

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Three conferences have preceded the Leiden 2013 one, and their proceedings have all been published. In case you want to whet your appetites, have a go at them, and come to Leiden next year for more. Sheffield 2003: New Approaches … Continue reading →

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On snuck and sneaked

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Mesthrie et al. write on p. 23 of their book Introducing Sociolinguistics (2nd ed., 2009, Edinburgh University Press, that different verb forms are regarded as standard in the UK than in the US. One example they is give is snuck/sneaked, … Continue reading →

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