It’s the 26th of September and that means that it’s the European Day of Languages. On the eve of the closing event of the “European Year of Languages” (2001) the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe declared a “European Day of … Continue reading
Friends, put on your punctuation party hats. Tomorrow – Monday 24 September – is National Punctuation Day (in the U.S.) which was founded in 2004 by Jeff Rubin. The official website contains some funny, interesting, and entertaining items. These include … Continue reading
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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The project Bridging the Unbridgeable’s Monthly Lunch Lecture is very proud to present: A Database of English Usage Guides & Usage Problems Since historical (socio-) linguists of the English language have begun to study the topic of usage, there has been … Continue reading
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
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
Fourth Conference on Prescriptivism: for the call for papers, click on the link above.
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Last week, the 17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics was held at Zürich University in Switzerland. On Monday afternoon, the conference was opened with a word of welcome by the president of the university Andreas Fischer, who is also an English historical … Continue reading
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
The Bridging the Unbridgeable project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, abbreviated as NWO in Dutch, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Invariably, Microsoft Outlook corrects this into NOW: very annoying, as it results in a stupid typo … Continue reading
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