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500 Mistakes and Live and Learn

Posted on November 8, 2016 by BtU Admin

I’ve always been wondering about the relationship between Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence (1856) and Live and Learn: A Guide for All, who Wish to Speak and Write Correctly (1856?). Both are usage guides, and they seem to share the … Continue reading →

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No it didn’t: heighth as a usage problem

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Last week, the book Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English came out, edited by Marina Dossena. It includes two papers that are of interest to this project, one by Ulrich Busse, which deals with the usage guides by Alford (1864) and White … Continue reading →

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The Fourth of July and 500 Mistakes of Daily Occurrence

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

Since it is the fourth of July today, I might perhaps draw on the possibility that many people will be Googling for “Independence Day” or indeed “the fourth of July” to invoke their help in identifying a reference. I’ve already … Continue reading →

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Peter Trudgill on less and fewer

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

Reading students’ papers this summer, I kept stumbling over their use of less for fewer. But it is not a typically Dutch error (as I have to see it in my role as their teacher), nor is it new. For … Continue reading →

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Pulpitically?

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

I’m currently analysing the entries in Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence (1856), one of the earliest Americn usage guides (though not the earliest one, as I thought before), for a paper I’m giving on the topic at the 5th … Continue reading →

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