Language Log is one of my favorite blogs. It is a gathering of linguists, mostly unrepentant descriptivists, who don’t hesitate to bring to bear their full education and resources on, well, issues that only language geeks (like myself) would wonder about.
Here, as a sterling example, are a pair of posts exploring the origin of the phrase “to blame A on B”, which apparently was considered at one time to be an unacceptable colloquialism (the preferred constructs were “to lay blame for A upon B” or “to blame B for A”):
Yes, I find all this very fascinating and entertaining. Your mileage may vary. ..bruce w..