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While reading Samuel Johnson’s introduction to his dictionary, the following two sentences caught my eye:
The language most likely to continue long without alteration would be that of a nation raised a little, and but a little, above barbarity, secluded from strangers, and totally employed in procuring the conveniences of life; either without books, or, like [...]

Here are a couple of articles I’ve recently stumbled across. These might be of interest to the budding grammarians (snoots?) in our class: First, a piece from the Chicago Tribune about the difference between lay v. lie. By a Pomona alum!
 Lying Down in Crusade for Correctness 
 Second, a piece from Monday’s New York Times about the [...]

Here is a link to the reading for 2/21 by Linda Ehrsam Voigts
Voigts “Bilingualism”