Language Log: Battle of the alphabets in Central Asia
Paul Goble, "Another battle of the alphabets shaping up in Central Asia", Kyiv Post 11/16/2010: A statement by a Kazakhstan minister that his country will eventually shift from a Cyrillic-based...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Does it really matter if it dangles?
In his short but cutting review of Simon Heffer's Strictly English, Steven Poole remarks that the book "condemns hanging participles yet perpetrates a monster (on p165, too tedious to quote here)."...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Site-seeing miners
Earlier today, the homepage of CNN.com featured the headline, "Chile miners take in sites across L.A.": But in short order, sites was corrected to sights: Kevin Lyda sent the bat signal to Language...
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