The three-colored flag?
Language Log 2025-09-16
Summary:
Liam Julian, "Putting Fowler back in Fowler's" (2009) presents a perspective that used to be more common that it is today, I think: linguistic prescriptivism as (a particular kind of) cultural conservatism, in explicit association with right-wing politics. Julian wrote: Burchfield, in his preface to Fowler’s third edition, called the first edition “this extraordinary book, […]