... Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE OED TLS TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage TheOxford Guide to English Usage has this aim Within the limits just ... Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal way, e.g bosses' the Joneses' dog the octopuses' tentacles the Thomases' dog French...
... Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) and its ... the OED, Volume 1) 2.5 -arily In a few adverbs that end in the sequence -arily there is a tendency to place the stress on the a rather than the first syllable of the word The reason lies in the ... Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal way, e g bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the Joneses' dog the Thomases' dog French...
... Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE OED TLS TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage TheOxford Guide to English Usage has this aim Within the limits just ... Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal way, e.g bosses' the Joneses' dog the octopuses' tentacles the Thomases' dog French...
... (amongst others) emphasize the diversity of the speakers who make up theEnglish language’ Rather than a seamless synecdoche of the history of English with the history of the standard variety, the ... still called the race of the Jutes From the Old Saxons came the East Saxons, the South Saxons, and the West Saxons From the land of the Angles, which has lain waste between the Jutes and the Saxons ... Standard English, there must be a hundred who not, and another hundred who speak other varieties as well as the standard Where is their a history of theenglish language story told?’.1 The history...