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Tag Archives: John Benjamins
No it didn’t: heighth as a usage problem
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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Tagged 500 mistakes, Anne Curzan, heighth, John Benjamins, Marina Dossena, oed
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