Monthly Archives: June 2014

Sanskrit: A language is a language with an army, or at least a politician.

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A useful antidote for blog postings about “bad grammar”

In this post, Jonathan Owen discusses some of the common fallacies one reads on the web about grammar http://www.arrantpedantry.com/2013/11/18/12-mistakes-nearly-everyone-who-writes-about-grammar-mistakes-makes/

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The vagaries of English pronunciation

An historian of the English language would be able to explain the reasons for all of the variant pronunciations in this poem, but it would require considerable expertise. You can have fun trying to read it out loud. http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/

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