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, […]

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

09/16/2025, 17:30

Date published:

09/16/2025, 17:05