Monthly Archives: September 2013

Are you a language “bully”?

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

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Shakespeare in the original pronunciation

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/

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We mourn the loss of a great English poet. He unleashed his word hoard.

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