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MEDIA ENQUIRIES

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Ken Thomson

GENERAL ENQUIRIES

Contact the Society's Secretary
Ennis Killip

MEMBERSHIP

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Tony Scott

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The Queen's English Society is registered as a charity in the UK No. 272901

Welcome to the QES



The Queen's English Society is neither a museum nor is it a preservation Society. These are but two of the myths promulgated by our detractors. The 'anti brigade', are a strange group of people, often quite well educated themselves, but appear to be against others who strive to achieve. They seemingly have no knowledge of why the QES exists and what we seek to do. They appear to actually believe that anyone can simply freeze the language at a given time and leave it in that state indefinitely.

The myths will be dispelled by taking a quick look at the facts.
The Society's Constitution may also be viewed within this website.
The QES is by nature a prescriptivist organisation, because to adopt a wholly descriptivist approach, would render our existence to be meaningless. Put very simply, we refuse as a nation to adopt the word 'sidewalk' when there is already a perfectly good word — pavement, nicely settled in our language.

The QES — HERE TO HELP


A new home for the Academy

An important alternative source of information about the English language and of research material related to the subject is

The Academy of Contemporary English

The Academy was originally founded under the auspices of the QES and formed a major part of our website. It is now a separate organisation and has established its own internet presence, as a means of research and a tool to stimulate interest and debate.
The organisation is hosted by its founder and a small team of academics who are also members of the Queen's English Society.

THE ACADEMY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH






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