Bridging the Unbridgeable

A second edition of Pam Peters’ The Cambridge Guide to English Usage (2004) should be available in December.

I was truly amazed to find two new usage guides in a Dutch bookshop the other day – Donner, in Rotterdam.

“Is there a German complaint tradition?”

Peter Grund (Yale University), Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala University) and Matti Peikola (University of Turku) are co-writing a paper about recorders’ use of the ampersand (vs. and) in the Salem witch trial documents of the 1690s.

Perhaps my favourite St Nicholas present this year (ok, I also got the latest Asterix and Obelix comic, as well as the first ever Jane Austen graphic novel and lovely house socks, so hard to choose actually) was Richard Osman’s … Continue reading →

Thank you, Joan Beal, for responding to my call for pictures of works on language in bookshops!

Looking for Dutch usage guides in the context of the Bridging the Unbridgeable project has not been easy or productive.

Congratulations, Joan Beal (editor) and Raymond Hickey (general editor)!