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There are SO many online blogs and resources covering usage and style, though some can be rather polarised between prescriptivists and descriptivists.

Here are a few that I find useful or entertaining - or both!

Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage (searchable online). Although an American publication, written primarily for a US audience, it has details of where BrE (and others) differ: http://books.google.co.uk/books/about...

Gabe Doyle (linguistic post-grad) on Motivated Grammar, slogan "Prescriptivism Must Die!": http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/

Prof David Crystal's blog: http://david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk/

Stan Carey's "Sentence First" blog: http://stancarey.wordpress.com/

The Economist's language blog: http://www.economist.com/blogs/Johnson

Oxford Dictionary blog: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/

MacMillan Dictionary blog: http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com

Mignon Fogarty, aka "Grammar Girl": http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

(I have bookmarked many others, but I'll let others have a chance to make suggestions.)


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