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Monthly Archives: May 2014
“Raadstaalbingo”: Protest against political jargon by Dutch local councils
This is a blog post written by Ratih Suwitra, another student from my MA course Testing Prescriptivism: Maybe it is a coincidence, maybe it is the linguistics courses rubbing off on me, but lately I have been noticing a few things … Continue reading
Posted in MA Leiden, news
Tagged MA at Leiden; Marjan Ippel, Periklesinstituut, purism; Volkskrant, Raadstaalbingo
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Are Americanisms taking over the British Language?
Below follows Jan van den Berg’s first blogpost: “American influence is busily eroding a valuable and once firm distinction in British speech and writing” (Amis 1997: 11). This is a quotation from Kingsley Amis’s usage guide The King’s English (1997). As we … Continue reading
Posted in usage features, usage guide
Tagged Americanisms, fowler, Kingsley Amis, MA at Leiden
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