About
- 1.Alarm Over the Decay of English
- 2.Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English
- 3.Not Exactly Anglo-Saxon
- 4.Don’t Forget the Celtic Connection
- 5.From Insider Language to Lingua Franca
- 6.English as Easy German
- 7.The Viking Conquest of English
- 8.How the Words of Modern English Emerged
- 9.Black English — The Streamlining Continues
- 10.Honored Conceits of Blackboard Grammar
- 11.Pronoun Fashions Come and Go
- 12.Wrong Then, Proper Now — and Vice Versa
- 13.A Procession of Accidents and Fossils
- 14.The Pursuit of Logic in Language
- 15.Clarity as the Logic of Language
- 16.20th-Century Fashions From Strunk & White
- 17.The Kinds of Grammar You Don’t Hear About
- 18.Linguists Uncovering Grammar We All Use
- 19.Speech Versus Writing — Different Languages
- 20.Speechmaking — From Oratory to Plain Speaking
- 21.The Old and New Styles of Writing
- 22.Got Poetry? Language With Spice
- 23.Why Texting Is Misunderstood
- 24.The Living Past and Future of English