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The ugly grammarian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Dennis Baron
Affiliation:
Professor of English and Linguistics and Director of Freshman Rhetoric at the University of Illinois.

Abstract

The histoty of the words ‘grammar’ and ‘grammarian’ tells us a great deal about attitudes to grammar and grammarians.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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