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Orthographies in Grammar Books –Antiquity and Humanism

open access: yes, 2018
This paper researches the as yet unstudied topic of orthographic content in antique, medieval, and Renaissance grammar books in European languages, as part of a wider research of the origin of orthographic standards in European languages. As a central place for teachings about language, grammar books contained orthographic instructions from the very ...
openaire   +1 more source

Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: A Mnemosyne of Art & Science

open access: yes
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Ana Duarte Rodrigues   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Not Necessarily Farm‐Wives: The Working Women of Rural Aotearoa/New Zealand

open access: yesNew Zealand Geographer, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT There's a perception farm‐resident women are farmers or farmwives (e.g., cooks, record‐keepers, errand‐runners). Yet most farm‐resident women record a non‐farm occupation in their census returns. This article investigates this anomaly. It looks at the changing status of farm and other rural women, the diversity of non‐farming careers they ...
Ann Pomeroy
wiley   +1 more source

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