Ruth Walker

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That’s just the way it is

Grammar advice – on sale cheap after holidays!

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A browse through the newsstand of centuries past

Titles were downright snappy

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The paradox of New Year’s resolutions

‘Resolution’ less an effort at complete reprogramming than a judicious triage

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Navigating our way in the landscape of books

The physical spaces of a book matter, it seems

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Making these ‘United States’ safe for Ngrams

The poster child for the Ngram Viewer is ‘the United States’ itself

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Teed off about ‘tee-ups’ and ‘performatives’

We get into trouble when we complicate, don’t we?

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Because they said so, that’s why

the very old word because exploded with new grammatical possibilities

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The colonisation of our book titles

Colon originally meant an independent clause

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Ukraine and the politics of transliteration

The question of “Kiev” versus “Kyiv”

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Be alert for some ‘dog-whistle editing’

A good deal of advice about language

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The peripatetic copy editor

New insights while driving around

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Accents that put us all over the map

A quiz that turns largely on vocabulary

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