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Hardcover Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711-1851) Book

ISBN: 1605830925

ISBN13: 9781605830926

Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711-1851)

An exploration of a surprisingly combative period in the history of English grammar.

Heated arguments can break out over many things: slander, insults to a person's honor--and, during one period in English history, grammar. In his new book detailing the controversies and fraught histories that accompanied efforts to regularize English grammar, Bryan A. Garner shows that the grammarians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were...

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