Monthly Archives: September 2013

The urge to correct others’ grammar may affect all of us at one time or another. An interesting article in slate.com discusses this issue: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/09/language_bullies_pedants_and_grammar_nerds_who_correct_people_all_the_time.single.html An edition of lexicon valley also discusses this issue with linguist John McWhorter: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/08/lexicon_valley_with_john_mcwhorter_on_why_prescriptivism_lives_in_all_of.html

The linguist David Crystal discusses and performs Shakespeare with his actor son Ben, using both modern (RP) and EModE (what they call “OP”) pronunciation in this 10-minute video: http://twentytwowords.com/2013/09/05/performing-shakespeares-plays-with-their-original-english-accent/