Tag Archives: Volkskrant

Maar is het fout? (But is it wrong?)

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →

Posted in MA Leiden, usage features | Tagged Chicago Manual of Style, coordinators at beginning of sentences, fowler, Jean Pierre Geelen, Volkskrant | 4 Comments

Cross-cultural Prescriptivism

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

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 →