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Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. Not everyone is excited to celebrate though — Geoffrey K. Pullum, head of linguistics and English language at the University of Edinburgh, takes on the famous book in this article — “50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice” — in The Chronicle of [...]
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One of my secret (or maybe not-so-secret) nerdy passions is grammar. I’m no expert on grammar rules, but I like to think I generally get things right. Over the last few weeks, there have been a bunch of mainstream news articles that have brought up some grammar issues that caught my attention.
In Birmingham, England, city [...]
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This weeks Monday Tally is pretty heavy on articles from MSN, which is probably a good indication that I didn’t have as much time to randomly surf the internet as I usually do. Instead, most of the things I read came from links off my homepage, a vicious cycle of being spoon-fed articles from [...]
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