I notice that he is an older graduate student in English language and literature at Oxford, I loved the Kinglsey quotation about berks and prissies. Adding it to my blogroll right now.
I liked very much the May 5 post, "On a Testing Time" where he reviews a a proposed test on grammar, punctuation & spelling for KS2. Admirably demonstrates how standardized tests on such material will end up promoting prescriptivism (after all, so much easier to grade when the world is viewed in B&W). I'm betting that in the US, Common Core Standards (& their associated assessments) will be dead in the water before they make it to grammar & punctuation. They're only at Math & Reading & already it's a brouhaha.
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You puzzled me for a moment as that's on David Crystal's Blog not the one I linked to. Then I realised that the top post on Caxton links to David Crystal's blog which we have mentioned before. He is one of the top British linguists and his writing is always a joy to read.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Looking further at the Caxton blog, I discovered through This post that the author's last name is English. It's unlikely, I know, but I wonder if he's any relation to our own RE? They've both got beards, but then so do I and a few other members.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Here's another that apparently used to be quite popular that I've only just discovered. There is a tenuous link with the Caxton blog : Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog. It does, though, seem to be almost moribund now.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
