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The AP Stylebook, which I often mock for its attention to entirely inconsequential details and its belief that it could legislate these details for writers all over the US, sometimes takes on somewhat… more →
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Spouse vocabulary
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wrote 3 months ago: The AP Stylebook, which I often mock for its attention to entirely inconsequential details and its b … more →
Phony rules
wrote 3 months ago: In the February issue of Smithsonian Magazine, a brief piece by Patricia T. O’Conner & Stewart K … more →
The scandal of English grammar
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wrote 3 months ago: The main title of a talk that Geoff Pullum gave tonight (in competition with the State of the Union … more →
Another invented "rule"
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wrote 3 months ago: From a correspondent in Germany, an e-mail query about there vs. over there in English. My correspon … more →
Possessive controller for SPAR
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wrote 7 months ago: From NPR’s Morning Edition on the 17th, in the story “Farmers Cautious of Drought-Resist … more →
Avoiding a split infinitive
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wrote 7 months ago: From the 12/3/11 Economist, p. 43, in “Marijuana in California and Colorado: Highs and laws”: In Oct … more →
The hedonistic monks of Mount Syntax
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wrote 7 months ago: Today’s Dinosaur Comics: A lot of stuff thrown in there. Soon T-Rex will have been being vindi … more →
Writing advice
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wrote 8 months ago: From Henry Mensch on Facebook, this advice on the lifehacker (“Tips and downloads for getting … more →
From the reflexives files
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wrote 8 months ago: From Steven Weinberg‘s article “Why the Higgs?”, New York Review of Books 8/16/12, … more →
More perils of advice
wrote 8 months ago: From the Daily News (of the central San Francisco peninsula) yesterday, in “Man faces federal … more →
Incorrection
wrote 8 months ago: Hanged vs. hung came up today on ADS-L, so I quoted from MWDEU‘s nice entry on the subject, wi … more →
MLC in the news
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wrote 9 months ago: A side-product of abortion in the news: many many cites like these two: [coordination with and] Mr. … more →
Zomlingbies
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wrote 9 months ago: A piece of prime silliness, from the ZombieLaw site (“ZombieLaw blogs about zombies in law, po … more →
When English teachers snap
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wrote 10 months ago: Passed on on Facebook by Bert Vaux, from Trust me, I’m a “Linguist”, ultimately fr … more →
On the garmmra watch: The Oatmeal
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wrote 10 months ago: From Alon Lischinsky on Google+ this morning: The Oameal has a series of “Grammar” posters berating, … more →
The hopefully files
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wrote 11 months ago: An inventory of some postings on the adverb hopefully, divided into the pre-AP Stylebook period and … more →
like you and I
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wrote 1 year ago: Caught this morning on public radio station KALW, during its beg-a-thon: … because listeners l … more →
Damn you, Dryden!
wrote 1 year ago: John McIntyre has just posted a piece on his Baltimore Sun blog that ends with with a footnote: A fr … more →
live close?
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wrote 1 year ago: Back on April 13th, mail (lightly edited below) from someone who had just found Language Log and my … more →
