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Semantics

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…

Notes From Underground

Translated by Alan Yuhas,

From a May 23 expert-witness statement submitted as evidence in the trial of three members of the Russian activist collective Pussy Riot, who were sentenced in August to two years…

The language of work

by Mark Kingwell,

Groundwork

by Ronald Jager,

Rocks of stone

Bay leaf

by Harper’s Staff,

To the editor

by Harper’s Staff,

Good and wicked words

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

Word-trouble among the statesmen

by Stuart Chase,

Word-trouble among the economists

by Stuart Chase,

The tyranny of words

by Stuart Chase,

Ways of words in English speech

by George Lyman Kittredge,

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