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Fixing what ain't broke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Jonathan Marks
Jonathan Marks*
Affiliation:
Łeba, Poland
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Extract

With its subtitle ‘Prescriptivism and Language History’, Fixing English encompasses two senses of ‘fixing’: firstly, attempting to freeze the language at a particular historical moment and prevent it from changing further and, secondly, attempting to improve it and repair it of its faults and shortcomings.

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English Today , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 62 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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Cameron, D. 1995. Verbal Hygiene. London; New York: Routledge.Google Scholar