Interesting bits and bobs found this week

This first link: http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/nov/14/mind-your-language-grammar-nazi, is a interesting piece about a conformed "Grammar nazi", someone who picks up on the smallest mistakes in punctuation and grammar like apostrophes and points it out to the victim, who can have give many reactions. She goes onto talk about how this was once her until she made a mistake herself and then got an idea of what the other side was like. She now looks at language in a different way, so instead of sneering and feeling smug, she learns to give people the benefit of the doubt. This article is a good description on how we all make mistakes in out grammar but straight away judging about it, is not the way forward.

This second link is about a useful guide for terminology for analysing texts. From the simplest bit of terminology to the in depth details. Need help with any of this then click here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/index.htm

This final link is a bit of fun about the Bristolian accent and dialect and what is interesting about language in this part of the country, who uses it and how it is easily stereotyped into a language that is not formal and can easily be looked down on. This article argues both sides in a fun debate of a city near us: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17523102