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This terrific post comes to you from Matthew Baines over at Boggleton Drive. Enjoy!

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    About the grammar quiz in the WSJ article

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    About the grammar quiz in the WSJ article

    A less-than-polite response to the Wall Street Journal’s grammar quiz from the linguist behind Real Grammar.

     It’s the usual mish-mash of zombie rules, shibboleths and prejudices. Half of the questions are not about grammar at all, but about spelling and punctuation. Two fail to acknowledge a difference between British and American English usage. Three are based on false ideas about which words can introduce relative clauses. And, inevitably, there are the misguided questions about between versus among, less versus fewer and I in object position or following a preposition.

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    If you’re entertained by invented languages, you’ll enjoy this podcast from The World in Words. It lists both old and new novels which include an invented language. Plus a weather report in Elvish for Tolkien fans. Enjoy! Related articles New Zealand Weatherman Gives Forecast in Elvish (VIDEO) (blippitt.com) Auden and Elvish (newyorker.com)

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