Pronunciation

Pronunciation

Semantic Drift

by Lionel Shriver,

Regarding the purported rules of English syntax, we tend to divide into mutually hostile camps. Hip, open-minded types relish the never-ending transformations of the way we speak and write. They…

Don’t ax the mayor

by Ed Koch,

Glossolalia

by Paul L. Berman,

Pronunciation for diplomats

The future of Anglo-American

by Anthony Burgess,

Min or men?

by William L. White,

Who’s mispronouncing now?

by Norman Lewis,

What those British actors were talking about

by William Cabell Greet,

English spoken here and there

by William Cabell Greet,

The classified mispronounced

by Frederick Lewis Allen,

Progress in pronunciation

by Robert Palfrey Utter,

A question of taste

by Harper’s Staff,

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