linguistlaura

The brilliant Letters of Note blog has reproduced a nice letter CS Lewis (author of the Chronicles of Narnia, among my favourite books w...

From my Tumblr : [This is a reblog of a post by a meme tumblr which posts these memes made by 'English majors', and they're ...

It's good to see that sometimes, an article about 'grammar' can appear in the media and it's not a complete load of codswa...

Ok, so like, I am not a prescriptivist, blah blah blah, but I do tell people how to use apostrophes for a living, so I found this momentari...

Some people feel very strongly about the use of the phrase train station . They say that it ought to be railway station . No doubt they...

In this week's Radio Times, the actress Penelope Keith gets worked up about the pronunciation of certain words:  If I hear 'la men...

I blog this blog over at Tumblr as well, as there's a linguistic community over there and Blogger is so uselessly hopeless at having an...

I stumbled across the phrase an hypothesis in a book yesterday and it gave me pause. Surely, I thought to myself, that can't be right? ...

When I was young I liked to learn facts about language. I was also a smug little git so what I liked best of all was to learn a fact that wo...

I'm having some trouble with my mobile phone tariff at the moment, and I rang up the other day to ask how it's going. The woman I sp...