B. the Unbridgeable @usageguides
A research project on English usage guides at Leiden University called 'Bridging the unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public'. bridgingtheunbridgeable.com Leiden Joined September 2011-
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Usage guides… there’s no getting away from them! bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2022/04/15/usa…
Lowth at New College, Oxford robertlowth.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/low…
Lowth on the cover robertlowth.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/low…
Letters by Lowth auctioned at Sotheby robertlowth.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/let…
Congrats Dr Beau from #cl2017bham @beauspeakswell
Discourse marker "like" and the joys of serendipity bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/06/16/dis…
More than th-fronting or David Lodge's Deaf sentence bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/06/13/mor…
Only 35? Another list on writing dos and donts bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/06/06/onl…
New from the blog -- Pullum: "Strunk simply doesn’t bother to look" by @CarmenEbner goo.gl/0tkJBu
Can pedant be a verb? The Guardian says yes theguardian.com/science/brain-…
Linguist List's review of Bryan Garner (2016) bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/05/21/bry…
Grammar Badgers bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/05/11/gra… via @usageguides
Microsoft Word, or: what is wrong with prescriptivism? bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/05/09/mic… via @usageguides
How many d's in Grand(d)ad? No riddle bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/05/01/how… via @usageguides
2 undergrads of mine are conducting a survey on gender-neutral pronouns in English. Resps &/or RTs much appreciated! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Congratulations, Paul Brians! bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/02/28/con…
Can someone perhaps help us get in touch with Angela Burt, the author of The A to Z of Correct English? bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/2017/02/24/ang…
Our closing symposium mentioned in The Pedant @OliverKamm & why it's okay to split infinitives goo.gl/KTAFoA
Call for papers on standardisation in the electronic journal E-rea goo.gl/GvsgeK

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