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Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage

Summary

Begin a new section of the course that focuses on your own relationship with language. In this lecture, trace the origin of correct usage to Robert Lowth, an 18th-century bishop who wrote an influential textbook on grammar that is the leading source of prescriptivist rules still promoted today.

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