Anne Curzan at Lingua Franca has a spot-on blog post about the descriptive-prescriptive debate. Her post is pegged to a Wall… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Linguistics
How knowing grammar can help copy editors
This headline in my community newspaper made me think twice: Growing area not in DOT plan. Nothing is wrong in… Read more »
Grammar posts good and bad
This post started as an irate takedown of “grammar mistakes everyone makes” posts that plague us via social media. This… Read more »
What I read this week: Aug. 4-10, 2013
Here are some of the things I found interesting or helpful this week: Teresa Schmedding, the president of ACES, wrote… Read more »
More about the singular “they”
I participated in an ACES Twitter chat, Your Grammar Question Answered, Tuesday during which we chatted about the singular “they.”… Read more »
Strunk and White: Into the Elements again
You might not think that such a slim book would inspire such devotion and such loathing. Strunk and White’s The… Read more »
Talking like my generation: apoplectic
Presidential adviser David Axelrod described President Obama as “apoplectic” about General Services Administration spending. I think Axelrod was showing his… Read more »
What will the Word of the Year be?
The American Dialect Society will choose its Word of the Year today. Here is the list of nominees. I like… Read more »