It was long promised and took a while, but we’ve finally updated the photo of our project members on the About page.
During a British Academy lecture in 2011, David Crystal mentioned that language was rarely the object of a work of art. Well, here is a work of art created by Donna Piët for an exhibition called “Een Poging tot Nieuwe … Continue reading
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As of now, the opportunity to submit abstracts for the conference has passed. We have received a large number of abstract on a wide variety of languages and topics. We will notify those who submitted their abstracts before the end … Continue reading
Cynthia is our project assistant (you will find her sitting in the middle in the picture under About this blog). If you want to read about what it was like for her to arrive in Leiden as a student, read the … Continue reading
We have added a new page to the blog; it’s called Features. While our blog posts are usually short and to the point, we occasionally want to post longer pieces. These features can take different formats: they can be a … Continue reading
Today, I managed to get hold of a copy of the first edition of Walton Burgess’s Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected, New York. It was published in 1856, and it is, … Continue reading
This is to remind those who are interested in attending the Prescription conference here at Leiden in June next year that the deadline for the call for papers is on Sunday (15 December). We have had quite a few very … Continue reading
Is prescriptivism a topic among the general public, one of the target groups of our research? I would say: yes. For reading David Lodge‘s Deaf Sentence (Penguin 2008), I came across this: … he [son-in-law] thinks you must be silently criticising his English all … Continue reading
Bridging the Unbridgeable 