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Author Archives: Ingrid Tieken
Could of/should of and Canadian English
Could of/should of are older than we think: elsewhere in this blog I reported on their occurrence already in 18th-century English. It is also the feature in the Attitudes Survey that calls for the most comments, mostly negative (very negative!) … Continue reading
Abstracts are coming in
We are happy to announce a fourth plenary speaker for the conference on Prescription and Tradition that will be held in Leiden in June next year: Felix Ameka, from the University of Leiden, and he will speak on the topic of … Continue reading
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Learning English the Warrell Way
This image is of a cover of a little booklet – unpaginated, but containing 12 pages – which the Bridging the Unbridgeable project was given yesterday. Brief though it is, it is nevertheless relevant for our research, as it includes … Continue reading
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Snuck in Canadian English?
If snuck is very common in British and American English (see elsewhere on this blog), how about Canadian or other Englishes? I found the following example in Margaret Atwood‘s The Blind Assassin (2000): People snuck off to Stratford or London … Continue reading
Prescription conference proceedings
Three conferences have preceded the Leiden 2013 one, and their proceedings have all been published. In case you want to whet your appetites, have a go at them, and come to Leiden next year for more. Sheffield 2003: New Approaches … Continue reading
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On snuck and sneaked
Mesthrie et al. write on p. 23 of their book Introducing Sociolinguistics (2nd ed., 2009, Edinburgh University Press, that different verb forms are regarded as standard in the UK than in the US. One example they is give is snuck/sneaked, … Continue reading
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Worried about Americanisms? Apparently so!
One of our readers sent us a link to an item from the BBC News Magazine, from 20 July last year, on Americanisms. It is well worth looking at. Thanks, Katherine! The article reads that thousands responded: any additions from … Continue reading
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Prescriptivist joke
I heard this one last night from my (British) brother-in-law: There used to be only three vowels before You and I. Any other such jokes? In English or any other language?
New articles on prescriptivism
And today I found the book itself (see previous post): thanks for this, Carol Percy, and congratulations on the book. The book includes various articles that are of interest to the Bridging the Unbridgeable project, but the article I will … Continue reading
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New publications on prescriptivism
This morning, I found the following email from Carol Percy in my mailbox This email is being sent to the addresses of people who presented and/or attended and/or in some way supported the 2009 conference on Prescriptivism & Patriotism. I … Continue reading
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