Round about this time of year, I eagerly await the nominations for the Idler magazine’s Bad...
Author - John Williams
As versus so in negative comparisons
Corpus lexicographers are used to basing their linguistic judgements on authentic data, on what...
Is there a case for ‘publically’ (or ‘economicly’)? Part 2
According to Wikipedia, publically is an example of morphemic pleonasm. A pleonasm is normally...
Is there a case for ‘publically’? Part 1
Recently, while proofreading an internal document, I was taken to task by a colleague for...
What can language research tell us about the ‘real world’? Part 3
We have seen in previous posts (in part 1 and part 2) that the real world tends to be defined and...
What can language research tell us about the ‘real...
Last week we saw how, according to the ukWaC corpus, UK universities appear to be preoccupied with...
What can language research tell us about the ‘real...
John Williams, our new guest blogger, worked as a lexicographer for COBUILD and later for Macmillan...