Monthly Archives: March 2021

The Grolier exhibition opening now available online

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Ingrid Tieken

Two weeks ago, I reported on the opening of Bryan Garner’s exhibition Taming the Tongue at the Grolier Club in New York. The video of the event is now available online. So if you wish to know more about this … Continue reading →

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That if a usage problem in English?

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Ingrid Tieken

Two of my colleagues at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics are working on the collocation of dat “that” and als “if” in sentences like Hij dacht dat als hij drukte, het luikje open zou gaan (“He thought that if he pushed, … Continue reading →

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Just out!

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Ingrid Tieken

For all those interested in the relationship between usage, usage guides and linguistic norms, this book has just come out. With warmest thanks to the editors Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas and Janet Grijzenhout, as well as to all contributing authors: … Continue reading →

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Exhibition opens today: Bryan Garner’s “Taming the Tongue”

Posted on March 4, 2021 by Ingrid Tieken

We all know Bryan Garner as the author of Garner’s Modern American (now English) Usage (4th ed. 2016), but not everyone may be aware of the fact that he is also a collector of 18th and 19th-century books, grammars as … Continue reading →

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A new “feature” on this blog by Paul Nance

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Ingrid Tieken

Paul Nance is a regular contributor to this blog. This time, he has written a great piece on metalinguistic comments in detective novels by Rex Stout (1886-1975). Enjoy reading it!

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