The Language Wars

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  —— Proper English: Myths and Misunderstandings about Language (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)

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  David Wolman, Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling (New York: Collins, 2008)

  Nicola Woolcock, ‘Pedants’ revolt aims to stop English being lost for words’, The Times, 7 June 2010

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  Laura Wright (ed.), The Development of Standard English 1300–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

  Sue Wright (ed.), Language and Conflict: A Neglected Relationship (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1998)

  Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, ‘Prescriptivism and preposition stranding in eighteenth-century prose’, Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics 6 (2006)

  John Yeomans, The Abecedarian, or, Philosophic Comment upon the English Alphabet (London: J. Coote, 1759)

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  Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity (London: Minerva, 1995)

  Thomas de Zengotita, Mediated: How the Media Shape the World Around You (London: Bloomsbury, 2007)

  William Zinsser, On Writing Well (New York: Quill, 2001)