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  The Sense of Style review – lessons in how to write

  3 Sep 2014:

  What makes some prose compelling and some soggy? And do split infinitives matter? Henry Hitchings on a new and jaunty guide

• The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker – digested read

  31 Aug 2014: John Crace edits the linguist's manual of style down to a fashionable 700 words

• The usages up with which we should not put

  17 Aug 2014: Letters: I presume Steven Pinker’s inclusion of the words ‘flouted’, ‘dichotomy’ and ‘refuted’ in his attack on pedantry was not accidental

• Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes)

  15 Aug 2014:

  You shudder at a split infinitive, know when to use 'that' or 'which' and would never confuse 'less' with 'fewer' – but are these rules always right, elegant or sensible, asks linguist Steven Pinker

• Do you know your sideeye from your subtweets? Take our amazeballs quiz

  Quiz, 14 Aug 2014:

  Oxford Dictionaries has added dozens of new words to its online edition, including 'amazeballs', 'mansplain' and 'humblebrag'. Are you up to speed with our evolving language?

• In praise of ... Suda On Line

  10 Aug 2014: Editorial: An online encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world sets a challenging precedent for scholarly publications

• Cat Sense by John Bradshaw review – what is your cat thinking?

  29 Jul 2014: Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: A thoughtful, useful and utterly absorbing study of how cats perceive the world

• Egypt: after the revolution comes the battle for language

  18 Jul 2014:

  What do words such as 'freedom' or 'coup' mean in Egypt today? One artist is collecting definitions from across a divided nation

• How to talk like an estate agent – seven tips

  18 Jul 2014:

  Read any property 'literature' lately? Then you'll be familiar with a language renowned for its strangulated syntax, peculiar vocabulary and relentless euphemism, writes Steven Poole

• Two Koreas make strides to talk the same language

  11 Jul 2014:

  The Korean People's Comprehensive Dictionary will iron out the differences between the North and South

• Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin – review

  8 Jul 2014: Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: This entertaining book offers one of the best explanations for the financial crisis that I have read

• Morphologies: Short Story Writers on Short Story Writers – review

  4 Jul 2014: You get two writers' work for the price of one in these fine essays on the art of the short story, writes WB Gooderham

• Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers by Paul Dickson – review

  3 Jul 2014:

  'Whodunit', 'factoid', 'teetotalitarian' … Who invents words? And do writers come up with the best ones? Steven Poole on some surprising coinages

• The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons review – the book that changed 20th-century literature

  1 Jul 2014: Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: No ordinary work of lit crit, it's also about life, inspiring James Joyce to go to Paris and Ezra Pound to called Symons a god

• Authorisms: Words Wrought By Writers review – 'a fascinating history of neologisms'

  30 Jun 2014:

  Peter Conrad enjoys Paul Dickson's rich book that reveals how funny and random the creation of language can be

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