The New York Times

Which Language and Grammar Rules to Flout

Bryan A. Garner, the founder of LawProse, is the author of “Garner’s Modern American Usage” and the editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary. Robert Lane Greene Robert Lane Greene, an international ...
The Economist

Berks and wankers, prescriptivists and descriptivists

I WOULDN'T have expected Kingsley Amis to be the one to nail this just right, but he did. His son Martin wrote an essay for the Guardian a little while back about Kingsley's 1997 usage book "The ...
The New York Times

Which Language and Grammar Rules to Flout

The labels “prescriptivist” and “descriptivist” are increasingly unhelpful. One could defensibly call me a descriptivist. I just describe something that dogmatic egalitarians don’t want described: the ...