Long 18th Century

3. author of the 'Proposal for Corecting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue': Jonathan ...
5. 'the sole arbiter and norm of speech'
6. author of 'The Rudiments of Grammar', critic of overly prescriptive approaches: Joseph ...
8. group oh theologians opposed to excessive dogmatism
10. one of two dominant movements in literature / culture during the LEC
11. prominent platform for scientific discourse in England (two words)
12. first half of the 18th cantury in England: ... Age
14. history of a word's development
15. treatise on politics by Thomas Hobbes
16. derogatory term for those accused of being irrational
17. author and proponent of the standardization of English: John ...
19. a phrase which breaks grammatical rules
20. new genre (and matching appropriate register) emerging in the long 18th century (two words)
22. word-formation technique regarded as 'barbarism'
24. author of 'A Dictionary of the English Language': Samuel ...

1. any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections (according to the 'Dictionary of the English Language')
2. one of two dominant movements in literature / culture during the LEC
4. need for standardization and regulation
7. proposed framework of sytanctic and morphological rules applicable to all languages (two words)
9. 'the disgrace of our language' according to Swift
13. anonymous pamphlet defending language change (two words)
18. the kind of language suitable for poetry (two words)
21. early advocate of descriptive / usage-based linguistics: George ...
23. model example for 'correct' grammar