Category Archives: writing guide

Proscription of the ampersand?

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Ingrid Tieken

Peter Grund (Yale University), Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala University) and Matti Peikola (University of Turku) are co-writing a paper about recorders’ use of the ampersand (vs. and) in the Salem witch trial documents of the 1690s. One of the questions they … Continue reading →

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Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (3)

Posted on August 21, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

I had to be in Leiden for a social event this week, so decided to go a little earlier and visit as many of the bookshops in the city centre as I could manage. Three of them this time, all … Continue reading →

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Comparative prescriptivism

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Ingrid Tieken

When I gave a workshop on usage guides and old usage problems for TeamWork earlier this year, Marcel Lemmens, one of the organisers, presented me with a copy of his recently published writing manual called Als je BGRPT wat ik … Continue reading →

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