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"https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/verbings-superlatives-and-film-catchphrases/", "published_at": "2017-11-07T17:34:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20b-f024-7233-ba2a-97c37bd54704", "title": "Adding a comma between the subject and predicate, is inadvisable", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/adding-a-comma-between-the-subject-and-predicate-is-inadvisable/", "published_at": "2017-11-01T18:33:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-087e-714f-bcb1-2d1fea4fecf9", "title": "Diabolical dictionary", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/diabolical-dictionary/", "published_at": "2017-10-26T18:03:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-087e-714f-bcb1-2d1feaf27b93", "title": "Jodie Foster: ‘He started imitating my accent’", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/jodie-foster-he-started-imitating-my-accent/", "published_at": "2017-10-20T15:09:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-087e-714f-bcb1-2d1feb869333", "title": "A to Z of English usage myths", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/a-to-z-of-english-usage-myths/", "published_at": "2017-10-03T15:58:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-087e-714f-bcb1-2d1febbd8d55", "title": "The prescriptivism is coming from inside the house", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/the-prescriptivism-is-coming-from-inside-the-house/", "published_at": "2017-09-30T10:47:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-087e-714f-bcb1-2d1fec0849ee", "title": "Bewondered by obsolete be- words", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/bewondered-by-obsolete-be-words/", "published_at": "2017-09-25T18:13:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-087e-714f-bcb1-2d1feccf87e9", "title": "Steven Pinker on rewriting", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/steven-pinker-on-rewriting/", "published_at": "2017-09-13T14:49:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-087e-714f-bcb1-2d1fed52f080", "title": "Elena Ferrante delaying the verb", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/09/09/elena-ferrante-delaying-the-verb/", "published_at": "2017-09-09T08:51:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-1bb5-73a7-93dd-f464f2fec469", "title": "Real World English: a video series", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/real-world-english-a-video-series/", "published_at": "2017-09-07T18:00:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-1bb5-73a7-93dd-f464f3269211", "title": "Linguistic sci-fi in Embassytown", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/linguistic-sci-fi-in-embassytown/", "published_at": "2017-08-29T09:20:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-1bb5-73a7-93dd-f464f3aaf261", "title": "On foot of an Irish idiom", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/on-foot-of-an-irish-idiom/", "published_at": "2017-08-14T15:52:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-1bb5-73a7-93dd-f464f3d5c901", "title": "Language change and the politics of accents", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/language-change-and-the-politics-of-accents/", "published_at": "2017-08-12T13:39:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-1bb5-73a7-93dd-f464f40f032e", "title": "Reading coincidences: geese edition", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/reading-coincidences-geese-edition/", "published_at": "2017-08-05T10:43:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-1bb5-73a7-93dd-f464f4f21e04", "title": "Euphemisms for the stomach", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/euphemisms-for-the-stomach/", "published_at": "2017-07-31T10:45:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-1bb5-73a7-93dd-f464f59a2b69", "title": "F.L. Lucas on style: ‘personality clothed in words’", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/f-l-lucas-on-style-personality-clothed-in-words/", "published_at": "2017-07-19T19:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-2a60-7228-9ec4-cc2c2d8eaa4d", "title": "Uptalk in Surrey: The Twinning Hypothesis", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/uptalk-in-surrey-the-twinning-hypothesis/", "published_at": "2017-07-07T13:29:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-2a60-7228-9ec4-cc2c2da51605", "title": "Nora and James Joyce: making women’s speech the universal tongue", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/nora-and-james-joyce-making-womens-speech-the-universal-tongue/", "published_at": "2017-07-02T11:06:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-2a60-7228-9ec4-cc2c2e5078ac", "title": "‘Cuckquean’, abbreviations, and vocabulary change", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/cuckquean-abbreviations-and-vocabulary-change/", "published_at": "2017-06-22T19:02:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-2a60-7228-9ec4-cc2c2f3fb9c3", "title": "Lewis Carroll, prescriptivist", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/lewis-carroll-prescriptivist/", "published_at": "2017-06-15T13:03:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-2a60-7228-9ec4-cc2c2f9d26d1", "title": "When is a typo not a typo? In the wor(l)d of Ulysses", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/when-is-a-typo-not-a-typo-in-the-world-of-ulysses/", "published_at": "2017-06-06T19:45:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-2a60-7228-9ec4-cc2c2f9d5bf9", "title": "Dr Johnson’s House in London", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/dr-johnsons-house-in-london/", "published_at": "2017-06-02T12:22:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-2a60-7228-9ec4-cc2c2ff0729d", "title": "The Samuel Johnson notes: A notorious ‘curmudgeon’", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/the-samuel-johnson-notes-a-notorious-curmudgeon/", "published_at": "2017-05-30T10:45:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-3fa4-733f-a526-3d401bf46b95", "title": "The linguistics of colour names", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/the-linguistics-of-colour-names/", "published_at": "2017-05-16T18:52:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-3fa4-733f-a526-3d401c01db94", "title": "‘I’m done my homework’, part II", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/im-done-my-homework-part-ii/", "published_at": "2017-05-15T18:04:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-3fa4-733f-a526-3d401cf1eb54", "title": "Link love: language (69)", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/link-love-language-69/", "published_at": "2017-05-09T19:11:37+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2020

Verb all the thingsoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2020

2019

Scots Syntax Atlas: mapping oot the dialectoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2019
The meaning and origin of ‘culchie’ in Irelandoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2019
Book review: Sounds & Furies: The Love–Hate Relationship between Women and Slang, by Jonathon Greenoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2019
Science-writing tips from Cormac McCarthyoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2019
Whose only passiveoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2019
Language like poppies in Ali Smith’s Autumnoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2019
Reading the book before seeing the filmoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2019
Un-user-friendly hyphenationoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2019
Book review: Because Internet, by Gretchen McCullochoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2019
Book spine poem: Secret Placeoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2019
Book review: Semicolon, by Cecelia Watsonoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2019
Grey areas in usage and etymologyoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2019
Character names in ‘Days of Heaven’original ↗
11 Jul 2019
A grand Irish usageoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2019
“Quotation marks” or ‘inverted commas’?original ↗
31 May 2019
86 that slang etymologyoriginal ↗
17 May 2019
Link love: language (73)original ↗
10 May 2019
Friends, Romans, countrymen: a language newsletteroriginal ↗
3 May 2019
Podcast recommendation: Talk the Talkoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2019
Book review: ‘The Dictionary of Difficult Words’ by Jane Solomon and Louise Lockhartoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2019
50 lost words from the OEDoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2019
‘The most coveted and desirable book in the world’original ↗
10 Apr 2019
Sequoyah’s syllabary for the Cherokee languageoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2019
Book spine poem: When the Lights Go Downoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2019
Mizzled by mislesoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2019
Metaphors, dilemmas, and dictionariesoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2019
Is ‘corpse whale’ the real etymology of ‘narwhal’?original ↗
8 Feb 2019
The Irish diminutive suffix -eenoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2019
Link love: language (72)original ↗
11 Jan 2019

2018

The Usage Panel is dead, long live the Usage Panel!original ↗
5 Dec 2018
Misnegation should not be overestimated, I mean underestimatedoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2018
Presently ambiguous, and till vs. untiloriginal ↗
19 Nov 2018
An odd word from Ivy Compton-Burnettoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2018
A mystery letter among the leavesoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2018
The process of removing ‘process’ from your writingoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2018
Why do we stand on our tiptoes and not our toetips?original ↗
3 Oct 2018
Irregular, elementary, and belittlingoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2018
Book review: ‘Talk on the Wild Side’ by Lane Greeneoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2018
Being bold in Irish Englishoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2018
How ‘Cape Fear’ got its nameoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2018
Lewis Carroll and the portmanteau words quizoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2018
Sentences plunging into vacant space; or, Why the full stop is changingoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2018
Book review: The Evasion-English Dictionary by Maggie Balistrerioriginal ↗
16 Jul 2018
Link love: language (71)original ↗
5 Jul 2018
Talk with your mouth full: the literary game of mouth-filled speechoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2018
Defuse/diffuse, hanged/hung, and killer emojioriginal ↗
27 Jun 2018
‘Like’ is an infix now, which is un-like-believably innovativeoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2018
The Speech Communityoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2018
Interview with the OEDoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2018
Savouring each prepositionoriginal ↗
31 May 2018
Verbing and nouning are fine and here’s a quizoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
Buffaloed by the verb buffalooriginal ↗
23 Apr 2018
Book spine poem: Walking Word by Wordoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2018
A family isolated by languageoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2018
Compulsive pedantryoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2018
Transcending mutual unintelligibilityoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2018
Variant usages are plentyoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2018
Irishisms in City of Bohaneoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2018
An Esperanto Sagaoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2018
Cybersecurity Style Guide is a useful editing tooloriginal ↗
2 Mar 2018
Anyhow, a hyphenoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2018
Look at the cut of this Irish expressionoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2018
Linguistic contagion and detoxoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2018
The suspended en dash, an editorial curiooriginal ↗
1 Feb 2018
Hyphenating my little ass-caroriginal ↗
16 Jan 2018
China Miéville’s new conjunctionoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2018

2017

Gender-neutral language in the workplaceoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2017
Margaret Atwood’s Virago suffixesoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2017
Good advice in Bottle Rocketoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2017
English is not pure or in periloriginal ↗
25 Nov 2017
In-house editing tipsoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2017
Getting ratioed for your bad takeoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2017
Link love: language (70)original ↗
9 Nov 2017
Verbings, superlatives, and film catchphrasesoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2017
Adding a comma between the subject and predicate, is inadvisableoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2017
Diabolical dictionaryoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2017
Jodie Foster: ‘He started imitating my accent’original ↗
20 Oct 2017
A to Z of English usage mythsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2017
The prescriptivism is coming from inside the houseoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2017
Bewondered by obsolete be- wordsoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2017
Steven Pinker on rewritingoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2017
Elena Ferrante delaying the verboriginal ↗
9 Sept 2017
Real World English: a video seriesoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2017
Linguistic sci-fi in Embassytownoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2017
On foot of an Irish idiomoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2017
Language change and the politics of accentsoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2017
Reading coincidences: geese editionoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2017
Euphemisms for the stomachoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2017
F.L. Lucas on style: ‘personality clothed in words’original ↗
19 Jul 2017
Uptalk in Surrey: The Twinning Hypothesisoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2017
Nora and James Joyce: making women’s speech the universal tongueoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2017
‘Cuckquean’, abbreviations, and vocabulary changeoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2017
Lewis Carroll, prescriptivistoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2017
When is a typo not a typo? In the wor(l)d of Ulyssesoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2017
Dr Johnson’s House in Londonoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2017
The Samuel Johnson notes: A notorious ‘curmudgeon’original ↗
30 May 2017
The linguistics of colour namesoriginal ↗
16 May 2017
‘I’m done my homework’, part IIoriginal ↗
15 May 2017
Link love: language (69)original ↗
9 May 2017
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