Officially, Prof. Hacker accepts the distinction linguists make between prescriptive and descriptive grammar. Unofficially, however, we’re raging grammar queens, and so are mad for these handy ...

I have a distinguished colleague who unceasingly tries to persuade me to see that my attempts at descriptive grammar really have a prescriptive subtext. We were both participants in a workshop on the ...

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A review of An English Language Primer Focused on Sri Lanka (Especially for Tamil Readers) by Prof. S.R.H. Hoole. It is said that the first lexicographer Samuel Johnson ushered a new orientation to ...