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Rodney Huddleston pointed out to me that I hadn't included post as a preposition in the Simple English Wiktionary. (I have since added ...

If the Ontario government is indeed earnest about wanting to "help internationally trained professionals work int heir fields of exper...

Here in Ontario, it has been illegal for part-time college teachers to unionize. A ruling in BC last year made it clear that that would have...

I do hope that this sounds the death knell for the pointless proscription of singular they . The Canadian Department of Justice actually rec...

By Craig Brown Last Updated: 12:01am BST 12/04/2008 Sir - Listening to people on television being interviewed, I find to my horror that the...

"Every year, the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English. From books publi...

If you've been having trouble accessing Language Log, you're not the only one. [addition: Back up Old LL here , New LL here .] Check...

Last summer when my wife was taking courses and I was taking care of the kids, M. & T. and I would go down to Chapters and spend a few h...

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A few days ago I disagreed with Richard Firsten's analysis of the construction "for us teachers". Where he said us is a pron...

The following question and reply (by Barbara Wallraff) were published in the Detroit Free Press. David Tobin of Houston writes: "You...

on 19-mar-08, at 6:13 AM, jennifer tamura wrote: "Would someone be kind enough to give a reasonable explanation as to why we say, for e...

The Times Online has a lovely biographical sketch of Roget, he of the thesaurus. There's currently something of a tug of war in our de...

In the most recent issue of English Language and Linguistics , Rodney Huddleston reviews Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy's Cambridge...

I have complained before about TESOL grammar guru Richard Firsten's grammatical misanalyses. Well, he's at it again . Dear Richard,...

I'm spending the weekend marking papers from my freshman writing class, and I came across the following sentence: "Looking at other...

The Onion reports on the ongoing US idiom shortage. Since the report came out, the US Secretary of State has reminded Canada of its obligat...

Mark Davies and the folks at BYU have just released their long awaited BYU Corpus of American English (360+ million words, 1990-2007). Thi...

From the BNC: the ... tendency of 212 a ... tendency of 15 the ... tendency for 142 a ... tendency for 257 I can't say I see a differenc...

Recently, I discovered that there are a lot of English speakers who think that equipment can be countable. This seems to be especially comm...