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Patricia T. O'Conner (born February 19, 1949) [1] is the author of five books about the English language.A former staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, [2] she has appeared regularly as a language commentator for WNYC [3] and Iowa Public Radio. [4]
The Grammarphobia Blog suggests that "your guys" comes about by analyzing "you guys" as two words in apposition. I'm not 100% convinced this is the correct analysis, but it is plausible. Either way, the existence of the blog post serves as evidence that the phenomenon has been discussed by at least some people who write books about English grammar.
In the Google search, I also found the question "Why do English people say sat instead of sitting?" giving an article in The Grammarphobia Blog as the only answer. According to the article, a co-editor of several Oxford dictionaries noticed several instances on the BBC of "sat" and "stood" used in this sense.
According to GrammarPhobia, this 7th-century problem was remedied by the symbol “uu,” which is quite literally a double-u. Next, in the 8th century, the “uu” symbol was replaced with the ...
The choice of relative pronoun typically depends on whether the antecedent is human or non-human: for example, who and its derivatives (whom, whoever, etc.—apart from whose) are generally restricted to human antecedents, while which and what and their derivatives refer in most cases to things, including animals.
As for that Jeff Grant article, which I mistakenly categorized as a blog because it was so incorrectly verified (with "Free Library" as the publication venue, turns out it's actually more than that: it is an article published in Word Ways. So a more correct citation is Grant, Jeff (2014). "Long one-syllable words". Word Ways. 47 (4): 293–96..
In “The Flip Side of Fear”, we look at some common phobias, like sharks and flying, but also bats, germs and strangers. We tried to identify the origin of these fears and why they continue to exist when logic tells us they shouldn’t.
One grammar blog I found says the Oxford English Dictionary includes an entry for "ept", with written examples dating back to the 1930s. (As the OED charges $295 for a subscription, I wasn't able to confirm this.)