Another Friday roundup:
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The first of this week's additions to the blogroll is
Separated by a Common Language, "observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK". So it addresses some of the issues I look at in The Engine Room, albeit from a different perspective. And the linguist in question is Lynneguist, who you may have noticed commenting here from time to time. I wrote earlier this week about a misunderstanding I had
regarding the spelling of the word 'cemetary', and Lynneguist
picked up on this for her own blog, so I am glad to see my foolish error making its way round the internet.
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If you have an interest in linguistics, you may be familiar with my second addition –
Language Log. It's got a crisp new template and sorted out its own blogroll so I thought I would give it a mention. It's quite an academic blog, although not without a sense of humour. I find the lack of a comment facility a little frustrating, though – especially when the bloggers there write something I disagree with. Which happens fairly often.
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Something else I stumbled upon this week is
a list of 40 writing blogs, especially useful if you are an aspiring freelance writer. I can't promise that all the blogs on this list are good, though.
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Finally, I found this on
BigLorryBlog – it seems that the credit crunch is having more of an impact than we might have realised:
Talk about minimum wage... 
