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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Publication history of Fowler
I’m working on a publication history of Fowler’s Modern English Usage, along the lines of R.C. Alston’s Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to 1800. For this, I need to have information on the publication of reprints … Continue reading
Researching John Honey
One of the things I’m interested in connection with the research for the Bridging the Unbridgeable project is John Honey, the author of Language is Power (1997) and the earlier pamphlet The Language Trap (1983) (as well as several other publications). Honey’s publications … Continue reading
A Dutch Language Club
Usage guides seem to be a typical English language product. As for Dutch, I was only aware of the existence of Eten, vuren en beuken: keiharde regels voor interpunctie by Wim Daniëls, a Dutch version of Lynne Truss’s Eats shoots and leaves. A … Continue reading
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Punctuation. In Political. Contexts.
There have been many interesting articles about language use related to the 2012 presidential election in the U.S. Some of my favorites include this recent one on the ‘mass-nounification of vote’ by Ben Zimmer and this one on the use … Continue reading
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Tagged attitudes to usage, Forward., full stop, Paulien Cornelisse, pauses, period, political language, punctuation, usage
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On being a pedant
And I thought I was a pedant! Read more in the article In a Word from the New York Times Online (and tell us what you think). Btw: searching for the author’s name, Philip Corbett, shows more interest on his … Continue reading
Forecasted?
I have a little gadget on the desktop of my laptop that tells me the current state of weather. Sometimes, my laptop is not connected to the internet, and the gadget looks like this: And each time I see it, … Continue reading
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