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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2002

Tony Fairman
Tony Fairman
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Abstract

A response to the prescriptivist/descriptivist skirmishes between Bryan Garner on the one side and Tom McArthur and Richard Bailey on the other.

Whenever describers and prescribers of the English language meet, they don't exchange views in balanced and civil discussion. They fight.

Type
Original Articles
Information
English Today , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 57 - 62
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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