Daily Archives: April 4, 2016

Is your image of a grammar pendant an elderly school marm? Well, a study by Robin Queen has shown that gender, age, and education play little role: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/29/grammar-pedant-personality-type?CMP=share_btn_tw

In a forthcoming book (Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, see http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/teen-talk-language-adolescents), Sali Tagliamonte of the University of Toronto, examines teen talk. She is interviewed in this article from the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teen-talk-book_us_56fc44dde4b0daf53aeea341 Note, however, … Continue reading →