English usage and grammar
- Name
- english
- Description
- **A community to discuss and ask questions about English usage and grammar.** If your post refers to a specific English variant, please indicate it within square brackets (for instance `[Canadian]`). **Online resources:** - [Cambridge English Dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org) - [Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus](https://www.merriam-webster.com) - Gilman's [*Webster's Dictionary of English Usage*](https://archive.org/details/e.-ward-gilman-websters-dictionary-of-english-usage-merriam-webster-u.-s.-1990). This is a great and witty reference about usage, its history, and its controveries **Sibling communities:** - [!english_esl@lemmy.ml](/c/english_esl@lemmy.ml) **Rules of conduct:** [The usual ones on Lemmy and Mastodon.](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/code_of_conduct.html). In short: be kind or at least respectful, no offensive language, no harassment, no spam. *(Icon: entry "English" in the [Oxford English Dictionary, 1933](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.271840/page/n922/mode/1up). Banner: page from Chaucer's ["The Wife of Bath's Tale"](https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/wife-baths-prologue-and-tale-0).)*
- Community Url
- https://lemmy.ca/c/english
- Subscribers
- 359
- Posts
- 30
- Daily Active Users
- 1
- Weekly Active Users
- 1
- Monthly Active Users
- 27
- 6 Month Active Users
- 237
- removed
- published
- 12/07/2023 8:39:52 AM
- updated
- 25/07/2023 9:51:10 AM
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