I previously wrote about this debate in my April 2 post "Prescriptivism and Descriptivism in the 18th Century". This post brings t...

Let’s have some fun with English. This post will deal with three types of English mistakes which can be humorous. Malapropisms are, in m...

The misuse of "literally" drives me crazy. Well, figuratively that is. I haven't had to see a psychiatrist (or even a psycholo...

I ended the last post with my observation that    all changes to language are fine and acceptable – except for the ones I don’t like . This ...

I’ve just nicely started reading a new language book and want to share some thoughts from it. Robert Lane Greene is a writer who lives in...

There are two opposing philosophies in the history of linguistics which can be summed up as prescriptivism and descriptivism . Should lingu...

The Indo-European Language Family Indo-European was the first language family to be identified. This discovery, and the beginning of mo...