| Priestley's and Lowth's grammars epitomized, respectively, the two main trends of grammatical tradition, namely descriptivism and prescriptivism. |
| That's prescriptivism — no doubt about it. |
| Something that tends to go along with prescriptivism is a pessimism about the future of a favourite language or languages. |
| He asserted that his prescriptivism was driven by the urge to stick to the Swahili culture and heritage. |
| To some extent, the presence of phoneticians on the committee ensured that the strict prescriptivism expressed by Reith in 1924 was to some extent mitigated. |
| Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting. |
