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Anne Curzan demonstrates the important role prescriptivism plays in the history of the English language. Starting with a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon she highlights the significant role played by Microsoft''s grammar checker debates about ''real words'' non-sexist language reform and efforts to reappropriate stigmatized terms.