Basic concepts for teaching from structural linguistics / J.J. Lamberts -- Meanings, habits and rules / W.F. Twaddell -- Linguistics and English composition / Albert H. Marckwardt -- The relation of linguistics to the teaching of English / Paul Roberts -- The "use of English" and the use of literature / John Holloway -- Correctness and style in English composition / Archibald A. Hill -- Our national mania for correctness / Donald J. Lloyd -- One can use an indefinite "you" occasionally, can't you? / Dora Jean Ashe -- Contexts / S.I. Hayakawa -- The possessive apostrophe in names / Robert L. Coard -- Some structural ambiguities / Norman C. Stageberg -- Language and dialect / Stanley Rundle -- Area linguistics and the teacher of English / Hans Kurath -- Snobs, slobs and the English language / Donald J. Lloyd -- The retort circumstantial / Jacques Barzun -- Grammar and writing / Bertrand Evans -- Grammar or gramarye / James Sledd -- Where our grammar came from / Karl Dykema -- A re-examination of grammar / Hunter Diack -- Progress in grammar / Karl Dykema -- Terms in phonemics / George P. Faust -- Something of morphemics / George P. Faust -- The teacher and the world of English / Henry Lee Smith, Jr. -- Generative grammar: toward unification and simplification / Owen Thomas -- Thirty years to a more powerful vocabulary / Donald J. Lloyd and Harry Warfel -- A defense of English speaking / Sir Archibald Sluter -- Spelling by folk etymology / J.J. Lamberts -- Pejorative terms for midwest farmers / Harold B. Allen -- Dictionaries and the English langauge / Albert Marckwardt -- The language of The catcher in the rye / Donald P. Costello -- Languages and logic / Benjamin Lee Whorf -- The independence of grammar / Noam Chomsky -- Grammaticality / Archibald A. Hill -- Some methodological remarks on generative grammar / Noam Chomsky -- Patterns and ranges / Angus Mcintosh -- The psycholinguists: on the new scientists of language / George A. Miller.