Grammar Lover? Three Books to consider.

• Three Books For The Grammar Lover In Your Life : NPR
  4 minute podcast.  As always, NPR is great.
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  What makes books about the decline of traditional grammar and usage so popular? Books like Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots & Leaves lament the downfall of traditional punctuation standards and promise a return to good old days gone by. But there never was a golden age of language, because language itself is in a constant state of flux. Yet we still pride ourselves on speaking and writing "well" — even when the definition of "well" is a moving target.
  • How can we think about grammatical "correctness" when grammar's rules are always evolving? These three books give some needed perspective to a lively — and heated — linguistic debate.
    
    
    
    
  • The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
    
    
  • The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
    
    
  • A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition (Oxford World's Classics)

    
    

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