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What makes books about the decline of traditional grammar and usage so popular? Books like Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots & Leaves lament the downfall of traditional punctuation standards and promise a ...
While “The Glamour of Grammar” will not replace Fowler or Strunk and White, nor render obsolete more contemporary and comprehensive guides, like Bryan A. Garner’s “Modern American Usage ...
In a sign of the AI times, columnist and author June Casagrande asks ChatGPT to write a grammar book inspired by her style.
What a heartwarming response to my latest contest! Earlier, when I invited limericks about language, there were all of 85 responses. But for this contest, for a new bogus rule of usage, as of the ...
Stop trying to make language ‘funner.’ Grammar rules exist for a reason. Anne Curzan’s book ‘Says Who?’ goes too far in renouncing the fundamental rules of language usage ...
Digital Reading and E-Book Usage in Education Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Digital Reading and E-Book Usage in Education.
WHY DO PEOPLE buy books on English usage? The obvious answer, “for authoritative advice”, doesn’t square with what people actually buy. For decades the best-selling grammar book in the ...
Four Seasons, in 2006—the Justice spent the early part of their conversation praising a magazine essay he had recently read on English grammar and usage.
Go ahead and split that infinitive! Here are some of the grammar rules that have changed with the times. Are you keeping up as grammar rules change? Attention, grammar police! As a longtime copy ...