| But despite that continued use, no prescriptivist has ever condemned it as a solecism, perhaps because it's hard to cotton to. |
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| Lowth's reputation as a prescriptivist is not entirely deserved. |
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| But in the middle of the twentieth century their prescriptivist assumptions came up against violent opposition, at least in the academic world. |
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| His distaste derives from a basic confusion in the position of the puritanical prescriptivist. |
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| Orwell was thus the most urgent prescriptivist possible. |
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| Hare's explanation of Golden Rule reasoning in universal prescriptivist terms. |
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| No self-respecting prescriptivist would sanction these, but from analyses of informal speech recorded in many parts of the United States, descriptive linguists have identified several restrictions on this deletion. |
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| Early Modern English saw negative concord disappear from the mainstream textual record, which may embody natural language change rather than prescriptivist pressure. |
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| In the inner-circle countries such as Canada, the US, and the UK, assessment in school settings has historically been focused on prescriptivist academic language conventions. |
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| Prescriptivist grammarians will have a boisterous time reading Taipei. |
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