Showing posts with label prescriptive grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prescriptive grammar. Show all posts
Friday, October 14, 2011

I Definitely Like Dictionaries Better Than the Internet

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These images are from a Happy Place post titled " How to keep the grammatically challenged off the Internet ." The link above has...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Grammar Obsession Defined

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In honor of the current Grammar.net contest for the Best Grammar Blog of 2011 . Thank you Logophilus for bringing this extremely hilarious ...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Signs of a Prescriptive Grammarian

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Greater Than or Less Than (or is it Fewer Than)

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Prescriptive grammarians would find the sign on the left cringeworthy, preferring the sign to the right by a long shot. The reason for this ...
Monday, September 14, 2009

The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes - Do You Call it Soda, Pop, Coke or What?

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While doing some research for the class I am teaching, I came across a Cambridge dialect survey that I would like to encourage all of my re...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Prescriptive Grammar versus Descriptive Grammar

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In a post a few weeks back I mentioned prescriptive grammar without really explaining what it is and for that reason I thought I would delve...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

McDonald's Fruit Smoothies

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I passed a McDonald's today and the sign in front read "Real Fruit Smoothies are Her." Did the last "E" fall off of...