Philip Pullman thinks this coin needs another comma. What do you think? HM Treasury/PA January 29, 2020 Comma again? Philip Pullman’s Oxford comma rage doesn’t go far enough Roslyn Petelin, The University of Queensland Philip Pullman’s call for a boycott against the new 50p coin is just the latest Oxford comma controvery.
Doing away with the apostrophe is not just the beginning of the end … it’s the end. www.shutterstock.com December 5, 2019 All hail apostrophes - the heavy lifters who ‘point a sentence in the right direction’ Roslyn Petelin, The University of Queensland The survival of the apostrophe is vital to the comprehensibility of our language. If those who have protected it are hanging up their red pens, it’s time we all do our bit.
Sign outside the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. William Murphy April 5, 2017 Who do you think you’re apostrophising? The dark side of grammar pedantry Rob Drummond, Manchester Metropolitan University The ‘rules of grammar’ aren’t set in stone, so correcting other people is pointless and demeaning.
The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn’t just restrictive, it’s often just plain wrong. from www.shutterstock January 1, 2017 Things you were taught at school that are wrong Misty Adoniou, University of Canberra Were your teachers right about when to use commas, and about not starting sentences with ‘and’?