The question the chapter prompted with me was to find out which usage problems the Grammar Checker deals with. Reading Anne Curzan’s book Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History (2014), which includes a chapter on the same topic, I feel similarly inspired. He had been inspired to write the post after hearing Anne Curzan speak on the topic during the ICEHL-17 conference at Zürich in 2012. Non-native English speakers and “the new like”Ī few years ago, Robin Straaijer wrote a blog post about Microsoft’s Grammar Checker.Another Source for Burgess’s Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence.Pravipis: the first usage guide for Slovenian.2014/4 The dangling participle – a language myth?.
2015/6 Literally, too big a fuss about nothing.2015/8 Microsoft Grammar and Style Checker (‘Consider Revising’).2016/10 Grammar Advice in the Age of Web 2.0.2016/11 The Internet’s (New) Usage Problems.2016/12 Prescriptivism in English literature?.
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