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Author Archives: adrianstenton
Etiquette in the 21st century …
Good to know that the etiquette guide is still going strong, and still focusing on women’s social skills: “There is a course on ‘personal and professional impact’ for women, which emphasises body language, presentation and effective communication.” You can read … Continue reading
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Language planning in the 21st century
Is this what language planning looks like in the modern world?
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British Library project discovers two new words – thanks to Guardian readers
It’s not every day you discover a new word, or at least a new meaning for an old word. But when the Guardian asked its readers to contribute their favourite dialect words, it discovered not one, but two. “Webs” and … Continue reading
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French language watchdogs say ‘non’ to gender-neutral style
And another piece from the UK Guardian, here.
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Resistance to changes in grammar is futile, say researchers
A review from the UK Guardian yesterday: “Linguists say that random chance plays a bigger role than previously thought in the evolution of language – but also that ‘English is weird’”, available here.
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English Grammar Boot Camp
Anne Curzan (Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History, Cambridge University Press, 2014) has recently(?) launched an “English Grammar Boot Camp” with The Great Courses. This is “a thorough immersion in all of the key elements of English grammar and usage”, … Continue reading
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We understood that to “decimate” meant to kill one in 10
This is a quotation from a new book, The Beast, by Alexander Starritt, due out on 7 September, and previewed in today’s Guardian by Ian Jack, about a fictionalised sub-editor on the Daily Mail. It might make entertaining reading!
Another book on how American English is taking over …
This is what Profile Books have to say about Matthew Engel’s new book That’s The Way It Crumbles The American Conquest of the English Language Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries … Continue reading
The globalisation of American English
There’s a piece in today’s Guardian here: Do you want fries with that? Data shows Americanization of English is rising on the use of Google Ngram Viewer to document the spread of American English. It includes a link to the … Continue reading
A missing word? Part II
The relevant entries from the OED are: I also had a look at Worcester’s dictionary, primarily to see if he had any citations. I’m not sure about the date, as the first twenty pages are missing, but these are the … Continue reading
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