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Most Influential Tech Comm Bloggers 2010
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Tag Archives: pedantry
Space Wars
There is a danger that the space wars may erupt all over again. Not a war in space, thank goodness but a war about the number of spaces to put after a full stop (or if you are from the … Continue reading
A custard cream? That’s neet!
The latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was published this week, and there have been a spate of articles about some of the new words that are in the dictionary for the first time, including custard cream … Continue reading
Tagged English, language, OED, pedantry
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Learning from Jane
I have always enjoyed citing Jane Austen’s use of “their” with a singular antecedent in rebuttal of the pedants who claim it must only be used with the plural (see the reference on Henry Churchyard’s Linguistics page, and many other … Continue reading
Tagged etymology, films, jane Austen, language, OED, pedantry
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