A bearded man walking the streets deeply engrossed in reading a book. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815. (Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection) The rules that govern English usage have never been ...
When Lynne Truss wrote, in her best-selling 2003 grammar screed Eats, Shoots & Leaves, of “a world of plummeting punctuation standards,” she was (perhaps unwittingly) joining an ancient tradition. How ...
WHY DO PEOPLE buy books on English usage? The obvious answer, “for authoritative advice”, doesn’t square with what people actually buy. For decades the best-selling grammar book in the ...
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