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Robin Straaijer

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Independent Scholar

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Robin Straaijer received an MA in English Language & Literature from the University of Amsterdam and obtained a PhD from the University of Leiden with his dissertation Joseph Priestley, Grammarian. He built the Hyper Usage Guide of English (H.U.G.E.) database of English usage guides and usage problems as a member of the project 'Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public' in Leiden. He is currently working as an independent writer and reviewer, and planning a popular work about standard English in America.