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Collective complications", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/03/16/is-the-crew-plural-collective-complications/", "published_at": "2017-03-16T12:43:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-4ed0-737d-abfb-147b85d7e095", "title": "A sea of language at full boil", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/a-sea-of-language-at-full-boil/", "published_at": "2017-03-10T19:11:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-4ed0-737d-abfb-147b869484b7", "title": "How a usage dispute snuck into a Simpsons comic", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/how-a-usage-dispute-snuck-into-a-simpsons-comic/", "published_at": "2017-03-03T15:28:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-62c1-708c-8451-c57a9e0c3d35", "title": "Irishly having tea", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/irishly-having-tea/", "published_at": "2017-03-01T19:19:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-62c1-708c-8451-c57a9e281090", "title": "Harry Bosch, trainee prescriptivist", "url": 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"url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/how-to-pronounce-celtic/", "published_at": "2016-03-17T19:12:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-fea3-702b-b084-87c85ac665b8", "title": "The Hot News or After Perfect in Irish English", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/the-hot-news-or-after-perfect-in-irish-english/", "published_at": "2016-03-14T20:08:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-fea4-7024-ab91-5e87bfcc7c29", "title": "Linguistic hygiene in Sling Blade", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/linguistic-hygiene-in-sling-blade/", "published_at": "2016-03-09T20:40:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-fea4-7024-ab91-5e87c0bb23b4", "title": "Here’s two posts on grammatical concord", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/heres-two-posts-on-grammatical-concord/", "published_at": "2016-03-08T18:59:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-fea4-7024-ab91-5e87c18a8dfd", "title": "How gender-neutral is ‘guys’, you guys?", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/how-gender-neutral-is-guys-you-guys/", "published_at": "2016-02-22T20:26:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-fea4-7024-ab91-5e87c20f015b", "title": "How do you pronounce ‘eschew’?", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/how-do-you-pronounce-eschew/", "published_at": "2016-02-19T14:13:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-fea4-7024-ab91-5e87c2e05db3", "title": "Six videos about language", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/six-videos-about-language/", "published_at": "2016-02-17T18:48:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20c-fea4-7024-ab91-5e87c396dba1", "title": "Book spine poem: A Quiet Life", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/book-spine-poem-a-quiet-life/", "published_at": "2016-02-10T11:02:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-0d90-7237-801a-5e855a8bcec3", "title": "The history of English spelling reform", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/", "published_at": "2016-02-08T19:38:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-0d90-7237-801a-5e855ada157a", "title": "Dread of the telephone", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/dread-of-the-telephone/", "published_at": "2016-02-06T10:45:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-0d90-7237-801a-5e855af983a1", "title": "If Finnish is Godzilla, what creature is English?", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/if-finnish-is-godzilla-what-creature-is-english/", "published_at": "2016-02-02T19:41:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-0d90-7237-801a-5e855bb813df", "title": "Ye, youse and yiz in Irish English speech", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/ye-youse-and-yiz-in-irish-english-speech/", "published_at": "2016-01-25T21:01:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-0d90-7237-801a-5e855bfaba30", "title": "Link love: language (65)", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/link-love-language-65/", "published_at": "2016-01-20T19:13:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-0d90-7237-801a-5e855ceaacbf", "title": "Actors’ use of gibberish", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/actors-use-of-gibberish/", "published_at": "2016-01-12T16:10:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-0d90-7237-801a-5e855d8d4613", "title": "New slang and old prescriptions", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/new-slang-and-old-prescriptions/", "published_at": "2016-01-11T16:24:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-20be-73e7-b190-4182020b9257", "title": "Dreaming about words and raccoons", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/dreaming-about-words-and-raccoons/", "published_at": "2016-01-10T10:34:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-20be-73e7-b190-418202d194e2", "title": "Anthony Burgess on James Joyce and dream-literature", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/anthony-burgess-on-james-joyce-and-dream-literature/", "published_at": "2016-01-04T13:49:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-20be-73e7-b190-4182038e00db", "title": "Sarcastic punctuation in The X-Files", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/sarcastic-punctuation-in-the-x-files/", "published_at": "2015-12-21T15:17:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-20be-73e7-b190-4182046449d1", "title": "What will the future of ‘like’ bilaik?", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/what-will-the-future-of-like-bilaik/", "published_at": "2015-12-18T12:28:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-20be-73e7-b190-4182054eaf26", "title": "Due to Alice in Blenderland", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/due-to-alice-in-blenderland/", "published_at": "2015-12-16T12:00:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-20be-73e7-b190-418205861742", "title": "Raising the question of ‘beg the question’", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/raising-the-question-of-beg-the-question/", "published_at": "2015-12-09T19:50:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-20be-73e7-b190-418205910c54", "title": "Catch of the day: ‘Sea Gastronomy’ by Michael O’Meara", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/catch-of-the-day-sea-gastronomy-by-michael-omeara/", "published_at": "2015-12-07T12:25:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-44c5-70ab-8cad-c4f3730c053b", "title": "Emoticon generation specialist", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/emoticon-generation-specialist/", "published_at": "2015-12-04T15:51:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-44c6-73cf-ab41-2c85c8ef1403", "title": "What should we call ‘Grammar Nazis’?", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/what-should-we-call-grammar-nazis/", "published_at": "2015-12-01T11:29:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-44c6-73cf-ab41-2c85c91fa038", "title": "Link love: language (64)", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/link-love-language-64/", "published_at": "2015-11-28T14:41:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-44c6-73cf-ab41-2c85c98f9fa7", "title": "Nonsense words in Rick and Morty", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/nonsense-words-in-rick-and-morty/", 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"01a0d20d-562b-719f-888c-3d5d84a1d899", "title": "Reconciling descriptivism with editing", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/reconciling-descriptivism-with-editing/", "published_at": "2015-11-10T15:34:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-562b-719f-888c-3d5d856b010e", "title": "He/she finds his/her pronouns a problem", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/heshe-finds-hisher-pronouns-a-problem/", "published_at": "2015-11-03T19:02:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-562b-719f-888c-3d5d85d16771", "title": "Book spine poem: Travelling shoes", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/book-spine-poem-travelling-shoes/", "published_at": "2015-10-30T13:07:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d20d-562b-719f-888c-3d5d85e34eb2", "title": "Fear and loathing of the passive voice", "url": "https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/fear-and-loathing-of-the-passive-voice/", "published_at": "2015-10-27T19:27:10+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2017

Fowler, the ‘instinctive grammatical moralizer’original ↗
3 May 2017
The ambiguous Oxford commaoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2017
Book spine poem: Microworldsoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2017
The Language Hoax: John McWhorter on linguistic relativityoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2017
The Samuel Johnson notes: A very nice wordoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2017
Kinship terms around the worldoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2017
Dictionary mattersoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2017
Book review: ‘Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries’ by Kory Stamperoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2017
Is the crew plural? Collective complicationsoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2017
A sea of language at full boiloriginal ↗
10 Mar 2017
How a usage dispute snuck into a Simpsons comicoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2017
Irishly having teaoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2017
Harry Bosch, trainee prescriptivistoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2017
Have a sky at this languageoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2017
Book review: Dent’s Modern Tribes, by Susie Dentoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2017
Don’t flout this distinction – flaunt itoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2017
Prefixes and pearl clutchersoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2017
12 words peculiar to Irish Englishoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2017
Bicycles (or other)original ↗
9 Jan 2017
Lingthusiasm: a new podcast about linguisticsoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2017

2016

Book spine poem #39: Language, Language!original ↗
18 Dec 2016
“We must write for our own time”original ↗
15 Dec 2016
The Time Traveller: a rare-books magazineoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2016
Link love: language (68)original ↗
8 Dec 2016
Metaphors, mountains, and magicoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2016
Rise of the Invincibles – and the ‘dribbling game’original ↗
28 Nov 2016
Movie accents: the good, the bad, and the mystifyingoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2016
Dictionary style labels: a Macmillan seriesoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2016
A fierce popular usage in Irelandoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2016
Green’s Dictionary of Slang is now available onlineoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2016
Book spine poem: Grand Central Stationoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2016
The Wug-Plantoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2016
A cussed acrosticoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2016
Language acquisition and the ‘wild child’ Genieoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2016
The ‘heighth’ of embarrassmentoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2016
Book review: Abby Kaplan: ‘Women Talk More than Men: And Other Myths about Language Explained’original ↗
14 Aug 2016
Link love: language (67)original ↗
10 Aug 2016
Siblings with identical namesoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2016
“Whom”: to repriseoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2016
Pelecanos: the words, the rhythms, the slangoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2016
Strong Language: The return of the ***kingoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2016
Book review: But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”?original ↗
20 Jul 2016
Language dream files: the speech balloonoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2016
Book spine poem: The Accidental Grammaroriginal ↗
15 Jul 2016
Blatherskite and Shakespearean peevingoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2016
Truly, funly, tilly: language notes in Dark Placesoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2016
Douglas Coupland’s Generation X lexiconoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2016
Book review: The Subversive Copy Editor, by Carol Fisher Salleroriginal ↗
28 Jun 2016
Slangs of New Yorkoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2016
The Old Ways and the old wordsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2016
‘The’ way to emphasise a wordoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2016
Up to your oxters in Gaelic expressionsoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2016
Adverbial ‘deep’ and Shakespearean ‘do’original ↗
1 Jun 2016
Gender differences in conversational ritualsoriginal ↗
31 May 2016
Otto Jespersen on language: ‘Everything is dynamic’original ↗
26 May 2016
‘Answer’, a swear in plain sightoriginal ↗
23 May 2016
A horde of updatesoriginal ↗
21 May 2016
Book spine poem: Miceoriginal ↗
19 May 2016
James Thurber explains the New Yorker commaoriginal ↗
17 May 2016
Passive voice peeving and ignoranceoriginal ↗
13 May 2016
The problem with stigmatising slang and dialect in schoolsoriginal ↗
4 May 2016
English Dialect Dictionary Onlineoriginal ↗
1 May 2016
Link love: language (66)original ↗
27 Apr 2016
The whole race of unreal peopleoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2016
The need to name everythingoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2016
‘You just say what’s in your squanch’original ↗
24 Mar 2016
How to pronounce ‘Celtic’original ↗
17 Mar 2016
The Hot News or After Perfect in Irish Englishoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2016
Linguistic hygiene in Sling Bladeoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2016
Here’s two posts on grammatical concordoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2016
How gender-neutral is ‘guys’, you guys?original ↗
22 Feb 2016
How do you pronounce ‘eschew’?original ↗
19 Feb 2016
Six videos about languageoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2016
Book spine poem: A Quiet Lifeoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2016
The history of English spelling reformoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2016
Dread of the telephoneoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2016
If Finnish is Godzilla, what creature is English?original ↗
2 Feb 2016
Ye, youse and yiz in Irish English speechoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2016
Link love: language (65)original ↗
20 Jan 2016
Actors’ use of gibberishoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2016
New slang and old prescriptionsoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2016
Dreaming about words and raccoonsoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2016
Anthony Burgess on James Joyce and dream-literatureoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2016

2015

Sarcastic punctuation in The X-Filesoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
What will the future of ‘like’ bilaik?original ↗
18 Dec 2015
Due to Alice in Blenderlandoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2015
Raising the question of ‘beg the question’original ↗
9 Dec 2015
Catch of the day: ‘Sea Gastronomy’ by Michael O’Mearaoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
Emoticon generation specialistoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2015
What should we call ‘Grammar Nazis’?original ↗
1 Dec 2015
Link love: language (64)original ↗
28 Nov 2015
Nonsense words in Rick and Mortyoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2015
A language so precise and secretoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2015
‘Because X’ in Finnish and Norwegian, because borrowingoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2015
Jiving with the Cheshire catoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2015
English is not going to the dogsoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2015
Reconciling descriptivism with editingoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2015
He/she finds his/her pronouns a problemoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2015
Book spine poem: Travelling shoesoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2015
Fear and loathing of the passive voiceoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2015
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