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Tag Archives: Volkskrant
Maar is het fout? (But is it wrong?)
Here is Annemarie Walop‘s second blog post. While browsing on the internet a few weeks ago, I found a very interesting article on the website of Dutch quality newspaper De Volkskrant about the Dutch coordinating conjunction maar (“but”). The article is … Continue reading
Cross-cultural Prescriptivism
For his paper at the Cambridge Usage (Guides) Symposium on 26 and 27 June, Robert Ilson would welcome input from the readers of this blog. Elsewhere, he published what he called a “plaidoyer” for a cross-cultural study of prescriptivism, and in … Continue reading
