August 17, 2011
by Graham
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These days, any linguists who claimed to be prescriptivists would find themselves cast out of the linguistic community, and yet to a greater or less extent, we are all prescriptivists, in private at least, and those of us who teach … Continue reading
August 4, 2011
by Graham
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The Germanic group of Indo-European languages split into three sub-groups – East, West and North Germanic. East Germanic, now extinct, included Gothic, in which the earliest example of a Germanic language in writing – the extracts from the Bible translated … Continue reading