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Tag Archives: Walton Burgess
Avoid saying ‘ketchup’
Looking through usage guides makes me notice prescriptions that haven´t quite ‘taken’. Especially older usage guides can be an amusing source of these. These prescriptions, in addition to prescribing current usage, often also give a prediction for future usage. A while ago, … Continue reading
Posted in usage features, usage guide
Tagged 500 mistakes of daily occurrence, predictions, prescriptions, Walton Burgess
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500 mistakes of daily occurrence
Today, I managed to get hold of a copy of the first edition of Walton Burgess’s Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected, New York. It was published in 1856, and it is, … Continue reading
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