Example: A fully prescriptive approach may be harmful in this type of situation: prescriptive language could keep readers abiding by and enforcing prescriptive rules in all contexts to avoid being ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White’s much-loved The Elements of Style. But Geoffrey K. Pullum won’t be celebrating.

For almost every prescriptive rule in language — be it less vs fewer, the intensifier I literally used two sentence ago, or aversion to the passive voice — you can find plentiful examples in ...