Keynote speakers

Professor Geoffrey Pullum is a British-American linguist specialising in the study of English. Since 2009 he has been Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Pullum is co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). He is also a regular contributor to Language Log, a collaborative linguistics weblog.

Read the article GK Pullum on Myths about passives in our eSense magazine.

Mark Forsyth is a passionate, self-described pedant when it comes to the English language, but his detailed knowledge of history has given him a common-sense approach to its ‘proper’ use. He is an author, blogger, journalist, proof reader and ghostwriter. He can be found dispelling the grammar myths we were all taught in his popular blog The Inky Fool.

An interesting read in our eSense magazine: Mark Forsyth answers six questions 

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