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andreadallover.com
Over on the Stroppy Editor blog, Tom Freeman has written a response to Lionel Shriver's article in Harper's complaining about semantic drift. You should go check Freeman's article out here. I want ... |
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www.arrantpedantry.com
It's a phenomenon as predictable as the tides: a dictionary adds new words or definitions, and then people grouse about those changes, either because they don't like the new words and t... |
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stancarey.wordpress.com
I won't subject readers to another long, rambling post on whom. But I want to note the tendency, strongest among those who are anxious to use whom "correctly", to use it even when who would be generally considered the grammatically appropriate choice: as subject pronoun. Ben Zimmer at Language Log recently criticised a book review... |
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jimcofer.com
There are many words in American English which were once commonplace in British English before the American Revolution. Folks on both sides of the Atlantic regularly used words like "fall", "diaper... |
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