Do you commit apostrophe atrocities? Are you tormented by the lie/lay conundrum? Do you find yourself stuck between floaters and danglers? Do your subjects and

The study of language attitudes is the investigation of beliefs expressed about the nature of language and its diverse usages, how these attitudes came to exist

English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.