Monthly Archives: November 2010

Alex shared this: http://http-server.carleton.ca/~mfoley/notes/8%20Language%20change.pdf and Sophie found this: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/langevol.html I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on these. How useful do you think they are for A-level students? How would you evaluate how reliable the information is likely to … Continue reading →

via allinfo.plus.com Thanks to Helen (Y13 English Language) for sharing this on Edmodo. As with any resource, it should be read with your critical faculties fully turned on, and not simply taken as gospel. However, it’s a pretty decent overview … Continue reading →

From the Simon Mayo show: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/vkwhz/ Thanks to those who helped make this available. Isn’t it nice when people help each other out and share ideas and links and stuff? I’m delighted that more of my students are starting to … Continue reading →

Knowledge vs Pedantry In the readers’ letters page of  the current issue of the New York Review, a bad linguist called Sam Abrams writes to complain about the use of the word inchoate in an article by Tony Judt. Here is Mr Abrams’ text: … Continue reading →