Love English
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Posted by Jonathon Owen on March 05, 2014
Today’s guest post comes from Jonathon Owen, an editor and book designer with a background in linguistics. Jonathon blogs about language at Arrant Pedantry, and his work on grammar and usage appears in Copyediting newsletter and on Visual Thesaurus and Huffington Post. _____________________ A few months ago, in a post titled “12 Mistakes Nearly Everyone Who Writes about […]
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Posted by Stan Carey on March 03, 2014
Quotation marks, also known as inverted commas, are normally used for quotation, as their American name suggests, or to mark a title (book, film, etc), or to enclose a foreign, technical, or otherwise potentially unfamiliar word. Standard use of these marks encompasses variation: they can be single or double, and may be punctuated differently around […]
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Posted by Kerstin Johnson on February 28, 2014
This post contains a selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English, language change, education in general, and language learning and teaching in particular. Feel free to contact us if you would like to submit a link […]
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Posted by Daphné Kerremans on February 26, 2014
Today’s guest post, from Daphné Kerremans of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, is another in our occasional series on developments in language technology (and how they help us produce better dictionaries). Daphné is a linguist interested in the socio-cognitive mechanisms of language processes, specifically regarding the adoption of linguistic innovations by individuals and the speech community at large. She […]
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Posted by Kerstin Johnson on February 22, 2014
This post contains a selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English, language change, education in general, and language learning and teaching in particular. Feel free to contact us if you would like to submit a link […]
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Posted by Saskia Iseard on February 20, 2014
The public has voted and the 2013 Love English Awards winners have been announced! In this year’s competition, 90 blogs and websites competed to win top prize in the categories ‘Best Website’ and ‘Best Blog’ about the English language. More than 12,000 votes were received from all over the world and polls closed on Valentine’s […]
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Posted by Saskia Iseard on February 19, 2014
As many of you will remember, last year we ran the Stories behind Words series on this blog. In the series we asked teachers, authors, linguists and other language enthusiasts to share a personal anecdote about a word (or phrase) that they felt strongly about: a word that had a personal meaning to them. We […]
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Posted by Stan Carey on February 17, 2014
Every year there’s controversy over the use of punctuation in public places. Often it’s the humble apostrophe causing trouble, and so it was in Cambridge recently when the city council removed the mark from street signs. Unhappy pedants armed with markers set about replacing the missing apostrophes, which were later officially reinstated. One anxious campaigner […]
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Posted by Kerstin Johnson on February 14, 2014
This post contains a selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English, language change, education in general, and language learning and teaching in particular. Feel free to contact us if you would like to submit a link […]
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Posted by Saskia Iseard on February 07, 2014
Only a week to go before Macmillan Dictionary announces who has won the Love English Awards 2013 but there’s still time to cast your vote for best website and/or best blog in 2013! In the category Best Website about the English language, the following 5 websites are currently battling for first prize (in no particular […]
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