Category Archives: announcement

New in English Today: A Fuss about the Octopus

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Inge Otto

The March issue of English Today includes the latest feature article from our project in which I discuss the options English has to refer to more than one ‘octopus’ as well as a usage rhyme written on this specific topic. Four … Continue reading →

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The HUGE database: data entry

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Robin Straaijer

We have just finished the last video about the compilation of the HUGE database. Watch it here on our YouTube channel.

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2014’s most remarkable events in prescriptivism

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

It’s new year’s eve, and time to look back on the year that is almost behind us! Several remarkable events happened this year, events that we all reported on in this blog. First there was the new edition of Sir … Continue reading →

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There is a new video about creating the HUGE database on our YouTube channel. Watch it here.

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Robin Straaijer | Leave a comment

Fresh from the English Today press: The dangling participle – a language myth?

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Carmen Ebner

The December issue of  English Today contains the latest feature article from our project in which I am discussing the acceptability of the dangling participle. Here are some of the main points addressed in the article The dangling participle – a language myth?: … Continue reading →

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We are on YouTube!

Posted on October 28, 2014 by BtU Admin

We have expanded our social media presence with a brand new Bridging the Unbridgeable YouTube channel! In the very first video we’ve uploaded Robin Straaijer gives a very short introduction to the project and the HUGE database. You can watch it below, … Continue reading →

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A vintage copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

I always thought this is what the COD looked like: Until yesterday, when I found a lovely, what might be described as a vintage copy of the book on the Free Books Table we have on the second floor of … Continue reading →

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Read all about it! Our third feature in English Today

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Morana Lukač

In the latest issue of English Today I briefly address the history of the possessive apostrophe, the most notorious punctuation mark in the English language. Here are some interesting facts from the article: Did you know that the apostrophe was first … Continue reading →

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Bennett’s Wordfinder

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

This is an index to the second edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage, based on the version revised by Sir Ernest Gowers (1965). Paul Bennett has written elsewhere on this blog, about Fowler’s humour. Why need an index to a work that … Continue reading →

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New English Today, new Feature!

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Robin Straaijer

Another chance to get involved in our project! The latest issue of English Today is out now and it contains another feature article from this project. In this feature I ask the following questions about how linguists should engage with the … Continue reading →

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