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Author Archives: Ingrid Tieken
Dialects vs. Standard English
And here is Emmy Stevens’s second blog post already! She also invites you to participate in her survey. Please do so: your input will be very useful for the paper she is writing for the course. When Huckleberry Finn “snuck” … Continue reading
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Singular they and women
Back and forth to Berlin last week, for the Wild Publics conference organised by Theresa Heyd and Britta Schneider. There were two papers on prescriptivism, my own (Codification – prescription – prescriptivism: The authority of the lay-person) and one by … Continue reading
You say Ke-no-ah and I say Keen-wah
And here is Lizi Richards’s first blogpost (again, it isn’t as far as I know an issue in The Netherlands!): Even in 2018, a strong argument can be made that the British general public are obsessed with accents. Lesley Milroy, … Continue reading
On the front page no less
Most of the usage problems studied by Mittins et al. in the late 1960s (Attitudes to English Usage, 1970) have since increased in acceptability. This is what we tested by repeating their survey in the form of usage polls on this … Continue reading
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Tagged dangling participles, Esther Gerritsen, NRC
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No complaint tradition in The Netherlands? (ctd.)
I’m teaching another MA course on prescriptivism this semester, this time with the general research question as to how much of what is in the English usage guides reflects non-standard language use. All students in the course are once again … Continue reading
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Live and Learn – our very own copy
Truly delightful to see that someone responded to my call in December last year to donate any spare usage guides to our project: many thanks indeed, Paul Nance for this wonderful gift, a copy of Live and Learn (anon., 35th … Continue reading
On the late Harry Blamires …
How sad to come across his obituary in Church Times: Harry Blamires (1916-2017), who we once referred to on this blog as our oldest living usage guide writer, died on 21 November last year. The obituary lists his many achievements, … Continue reading
Season’s’ greetings and some Christmas reading
The most frequent hit on our blog at this time of the year is to Carmen Ebner’s post on the question of where to place the apostrophe (if at all) in “Season’s greeetings”. Well, here is something different for all … Continue reading
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We proudly announce …
… the publication of the second major collection of papers from the Bridging the Unbridgeable project, which appeared yesterday! Thanks to all authors for their wonderful contributions: copies are on their way and should reach you soon. We also … Continue reading
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