Topical Issues (Prescriptivism)

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Across
  1. 2. words and phrases we consider "banned"
  2. 5. an approach that sees English as becoming "worse"
  3. 6. most people speak these
  4. 7. an approach that seeks to see how language works in real life
  5. 8. people who pick others up on small, unimportant language rules
  6. 9. moving between different types of English
  7. 10. the value we attach to a language feature
  8. 11. seeking to set out rules to make English clearer, less discriminatory and less offensive
Down
  1. 1. the English we use to write with
  2. 3. an approach that sees language as having a pre-existing set of rules that must be followed
  3. 4. acting upon value-judgements about someone's use of language