grammaticality - Whether or not vs. whether - English Language . . . As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, learned English grammar in NYC public schools meticulously They insisted "whether or not" is proper usage, period Over time, language evolves or erodes and the rules change, which really means
terminology - What is the exact technical word to describe the . . . Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin, Brigitte Bauer (2011) The nominal form of a transitive verb that has only the prefix mang does not differ from the stem-word, or the word to be regarded as such A Grammar of Toba Batak, Herman Neubronner van der van der Tuuk (2013)
Reference request: the pronunciation of Law French? [Critics] do not understand young American lawyers, who — according to Peter Tiersma — “are increasingly pronouncing Law Latin in the style of Julius Caesar, and Law French in the style of Brigitte Bardot”