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I’m FYIing this FYI
As a science graduate I'm not a big fan of creationism. I have nothing against religion but I object to creationism being taught as a scientific theory in schools. This is much more of an issue in the US; especially in the mid-west and southern states where, it would appear, ...
Pinker on language
Steven Pinker has given a great interview to Guardian Unlimited in which he talks about, among other things, language as a measure of human development and swearing syntaxes (again).As interesting as the interview is, whenever I hear intellectual discussion about language I can't help but think of ...
Pass the dictionary
This brilliantly abstruse extract from Bizarre Notes and Queries was written in August 1890 to show "that it would be possible to write a technically grammatical sentence, which would be almost unintelligible." I found this via a blog called Grow a Brain. Sir:— You have behaved like ...
Racist grammar Vs new dialects
While perusing SPOGG I found a very interesting post discussing whether or not received pronunciation and standardised grammar are racist.Apparently "Ebonics", and the more PC term, "African American Vernacular English" (AAVE) are terms to describe the way some groups of black Americans speak the English ...
Single Breasted Womens Jackets
Recently spotted in my MD's artwork presentation to a potential client:Single Breasted Womens JacketsAdmittedly, fashion marketing isn't my area of expertise but I wouldn't have thought there are enough single breasted women to create the demand for such an item. In addition there is a possessive apostrophe missing (grrrr)....
Tom’s Angle
I'll be using this blog in a slightly different way. I'll be attempting to cut through common linguistic myths and looking at some of the nuances of English (with particular focus on modern-day usage). I'll also be regularly discussing typography and its fundamental importance as language's visual medium....
Welcome to GrammarBlog
Although I am well aware that the first post of any blog rarely gets read I thought I'd use the opportunity to tell you what GrammarBlog is all about and my reasons for starting it up.I think I'm fairly normal kind of bloke, I'm not particularly anal or fussy ...
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