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SevenSidedDie

Canadian, native English speaker, background in academic linguistics, lifelong reader, and language enthusiast.

In the prescriptive versus descriptive grammar debate, I'm mostly descriptivist but with an appreciation for the prescriptivist idea that something being "popular" usage doesn't mean it's correct.

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30 Is “Englishnization” an acceptable term? Sep 10 '12
20 Term for easing up sails in a heavy storm Sep 7 '12
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12 Why did only English undergo the Great Vowel Shift, making pronunciation stray so far from spelling? Oct 26 '10
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