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John Humphrys , “I h8 txt msgs ”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483511/I-h8-txt-msgs-How-texting-wrecking-language.html David Crystal, “2b or not 2b?”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview

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  1. John Humphrys, “I h8 txt msgs”:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483511/I-h8-txt-msgs-How-texting-wrecking-language.html • David Crystal, “2b or not 2b?”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview • Will Self and Lynne Truss: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview1 • Entries from Richard Nordquist’s grammar pages: • Verbal hygiene • “The Endless Decline of the English Language” (note, Nordquistis not himself saying that English is in decline; he is, rather, noting several instances where other commentators have made this claim) • Jonathan Swift’s complaint about the corruption of English • Nineteenth-century poet Walt Whitman’s defence of slang • Author H.G. Wells advocating freedom in orthography (spelling) • Jean Aitchison’s first Reith Lecture (an annual BBC lecture series), in which she outlines three versions of prescriptivism – the “damp spoon,” “crumbling castle,” and “infectious disease” attitudes.

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