Long 18th Century

3. early advocate of descriptive / usage-based linguistics: George ...
5. first half of the 18th cantury in England: ... Age
7. need for standardization and regulation
11. prominent platform for scientific discourse in England (two words)
13. proposed framework of sytanctic and morphological rules applicable to all languages (two words)
16. the kind of language suitable for poetry (two words)
18. any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections (according to the 'Dictionary of the English Language')
19. anonymous pamphlet defending language change (two words)
22. a phrase which breaks grammatical rules
23. author of the 'Proposal for Corecting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue': Jonathan ...
24. model example for 'correct' grammar

1. author of 'The Rudiments of Grammar', critic of overly prescriptive approaches: Joseph ...
2. group oh theologians opposed to excessive dogmatism
4. history of a word's development
6. 'the sole arbiter and norm of speech'
8. 'the disgrace of our language' according to Swift
9. treatise on politics by Thomas Hobbes
10. word-formation technique regarded as 'barbarism'
12. new genre (and matching appropriate register) emerging in the long 18th century (two words)
14. one of two dominant movements in literature / culture during the LEC
15. one of two dominant movements in literature / culture during the LEC
17. author and proponent of the standardization of English: John ...
20. derogatory term for those accused of being irrational
21. author of 'A Dictionary of the English Language': Samuel ...