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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2002

Tony Fairman
Affiliation:
UK
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Abstract

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A response to the prescriptivist/descriptivist skirmishes between Bryan Garner on the one side and Tom McArthur and Richard Bailey on the other.

Whenever describers and prescribers of the English language meet, they don't exchange views in balanced and civil discussion. They fight.

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© 2002 Cambridge University Press