atw: Re: Spelling Society centenary

Peter Martin:

> Rather than spelling per se, Johnson did seem to be more interested in =
exemplifying good=20
> style which is something quite different...

Well, yes -- making due allowance for the fact that "style" involves =
choice of both words and grammatical structures, and Johnson was only =
concerned with the former.

What is perhaps more to the point is that Johnson thought he could "fix" =
language (meaning vocabulary), perhaps for all time. But times change, and =
with them the needs of language users.=20

- Michael


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