English Journal - Volume 48, Issue 4, 1959

The findings of the studies reported in this article and in the one that follows may be somewhat startling to many readers. Apparently, as the author of this article points out, the “battle of usage” has not been won. Mr. Womack is an associate professor, Language Arts Division, San Francisco State College

This article, based on an address given at the 1958 convention of the NCTE, reports the findings of a five-year study which compared information from the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada with that from current textbooks about certain items of usage. The author is an associate professor of English at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

If the title of this article does not entice the reader to go further, this headnote will have no chance of doing so either! The article describes an experiment with a very different approach to grammar and language study. Chenault Kelly is an associate professor of English at the Eastern Illinois University, Charleston. Bertrand Richards is an English teacher in the Newton, Illinois, Community High School