Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History by Anne Curzan

Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History

Anne Curzan

208 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides, dictionaries, and school curricula. Such authorities have ...

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