Politics of Grammar

English dictionaries in the age of the internet (I)

How Americans preserved British English

English dictionaries in the age of the internet (II)

Still, the dream lingered. What if one could get to 100% – lassoing the whole of English, from the beginning of written time to the…

7 years ago
How Americans preserved British English
7 years ago
African words in America’s Gullah English dialect (II)
7 years ago
African words in America’s Gullah English dialect (I)
7 years ago
Kafiri, Saitan, Ogbomosho: Strange personal names among America’s Gullah people
7 years ago
Gullah: An African-American English dialect no one understands

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January 21, 2018

The time the Oxford English Dictionary forgot a word

January 14, 2018

A case for “flashing” to be in dictionaries

January 7, 2018

Soyinka’s “K-leg” English and My Word of the Year

December 31, 2017

Re: Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names: An Onomastic Analysis

December 24, 2017

Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names: An Onomastic Analysis