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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-05-28
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Friday, June 02, 2006. While trying to find actual proper usage of "the" and "thou" I came across this interesting tidbit in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. The pronunciation of this is the. The y being not our letter, but a representation of the obsolete single letter (called thorn. Now replaced by th. Posted by Alexandra at 7:58 AM. English Usage with Thomas McAllister. Literally, a Weblog. The Anger of Compassion.
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-06-11
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Tuesday, June 13, 2006. An interesting lesson from Illustrated Lessons in Our Language. By GP Quackenbos, 1882, discusses how to create plurals from foreign words:. Some English words of foreign origin retain their foreign plurals, changing us. Some words of foreign origin take both the foreign and a regular English plural; as,. Beau, beaux or beaus. Cherub, cherubim or cherubs. Posted by Alexandra at 3:23 PM.
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-08-06
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Friday, August 11, 2006. Bad Writing: On the Efficaciousness of Not Obfuscating the Obvious. I have to rant on a subject that has been making me crazy for many years now. Why do some authors of "scholarly" works feel the need to use jargon and incomprehensible pseudo-scientific sentence constructions to make themselves sound important? How is this "good writing? A service framework is a set of reference models, along with a...
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-06-04
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Monday, June 05, 2006. While I will normally just add blogs to my blogroll quietly and without fanfare, I came across a new one that made me want to point it out to my readers. Separated By A Common Language. And all those wonderful Brit Coms ( Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances, Yes, Minister, Absolutely Fabulous,. Keeping with the theme of liking all things British, I introduce you to The Perorations of Lady Bracknell.
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-10-15
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Monday, October 16, 2006. Its a Sin, Its a Crime - It's an Error! Some errors, increasingly annoying today, are in fact old enough to have been recognized by Fowler. In his ( Fowler's. Dictionary of Modern English Usage. First published in 1926, he devotes two pages to it, and well he should; our concern here is on page 303, with item number 4. The possessive of it. Like that of who. The absolute forms in - s. The distincti...
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-04-30
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Saturday, May 06, 2006. Blogging: UK vs US. I guess this means 1) that some Americans are really trying, so it's not entirely hopeless. And 2) we here at Ceely's (note the very British name) are anglophiles. Well, if you knew us, you would know that it goes without saying.*. But there are others - not so well informed as thee and me - and for them we will say it.". Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage,. Two odors are ref...
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-05-14
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Saturday, May 20, 2006. The Province of the Grammarian. I received a very old book in the mail today: The Elements of Grammar; So Arranged as to Combine the Analytical and Synthetical Methods: With an Introduction for Beginners, and Various Exercises, Oral and Written, for the Formation, Analysis, Transformation, Classification, and Correction of Sentences. Grammar is not a code of laws made for. What already exists. Th...
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-07-02
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Friday, July 07, 2006. What Not To Use. I find it interesting to see what early textbooks tell us not to do. It gives us a fair idea of what was once "common" usage, otherwise why mention it? Lesson XXXIV in Illustrated Lessons in Our Language (Quackenbos, 1882, p. 47) presents us with these possessive pronouns. For HIS; hern. For OURS; yourn. For THEIRS; who's. These possessive forms do not take the apostrophe. Geoffrey Ch...
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Ceely's Modern Usage: 2006-05-21
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A guide to words and practices that are spurious, monstrous, and unfit for usage. Thursday, May 25, 2006. Here are two sets of words from 1000 Mistakes Corrected and Peculiarities of Language Noted,. By Prof. W.H.Larrabee and Prof. H. A. Buttz, New York: N. Tibbals and Sons, 1873. The first set are words that may surprise many of us. 107 Interview - as a verb is spurious. "Our reporter interviewed President Grant yesterday." "A correspondent of the Herald. Or make an experiment. To this list I would like...
