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My correspondent this time is Nicola Burton of Oxford University Press, who's been looking after the publicity for my recently published...

A correspondent writes to ask about the use of it in relative clauses, in such sentences as the following (taken from Fowler and also a mod...

Following on from my last post, I've had several emails from correspondents asking the same question. Did the Elizabethan court have an ...

Well, that's been a roller-coaster of an OP ride. Three events, in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe. All three s...

A correspondent writes to ask about what she calls 'the rise of the unnecessary use of at on the end of questions, as in Where are you ...

A correspondent writes to ask what's the latest on the OP ('original pronunciation') front. A timely question, as it happens, as...

A correspondent writes to ask if I've done any research into the use of 'look...' or 'well look...' by politicians befor...