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Tag Archives: usage guides
Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (6)
Thank you, Joan Beal, for responding to my call for pictures of works on language in bookshops! Bascially, the question is to see whether usage guides are displayed at all, as somethimes they are, and often enough not. This picture … Continue reading
Garner on Fowler
Next year is a Fowler year. The Fowler year, when we will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of his Modern English Usage. We’re definitely looking forward to it! Anticipating 2026 in this light, Bryan Garner, author of OUP’s well-known Garner’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryan Garner, fowler, prescriptivism, usage guides
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Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (5) – Slovenian
My request for information and images of how bookshops in other cities than the ones I frequent promote prescriptivism, and in particular usage guides, has met with a response! Thank you, Matjaž Zgonc, for your pictures of the linguistics section … Continue reading
Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (3)
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
Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (2)
So far, I’ve got data from four bookshops, one in the UK (Foyles – London), two in The Netherlands (De Vries van Stockum – The Hague; Boekhandel Broekhuis – Almelo) and one in Germany (Dussmann – Berlin). On the start … Continue reading
Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops
Time for a new project! But this is one I can’t do on my own, so here comes a crowd sourcing request! Do we find usage guides on display in bookshops? Or other types of books that deal with language … Continue reading
Congratulations, Dr Stenton!
Yesterday, Adrian Stenton obtained his PhD degree from the University of Leiden. His thesis is called These Kind of Words: Number agreement in the species noun phrase in International Academic English. The thesis was published Open Access by LOT, and … Continue reading
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Tagged prescriptivism, usage guides
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HUGE 2.0, or …?
Filled with happy academic memories of the 7th Prescriptivism Conference organised by Linda Pillière and her team at the University of Aix Marseille towards the end of last month! The papers were all very interesting, the plenarists (Nuria Yañez-Bouza, Jane … Continue reading
Back online
Harry Ritchie’s website with his two freely available usage guides is once again up and rolling. You’ll find it – and them – here. Do let us know what you think of it.
Usage guides… there’s no getting away from them!
Yesterday, I found this well-worn copy of Margaret Nicholson’s A Dictionary of American-English Usage (Signet 1958) in my local street library (see photo below) just around the corner of where I live. I realised that it has been just about … Continue reading
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Tagged fowler, HUGE, Oxford University Press, publication history, Signet, usage guides
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