Usage of the English Language The English language is constantly growing and changing. Necessity or fashion is always creating new words. Traditional grammarians examine the usage of these new words, as well as older more established words. The traditional grammarians have upheld the standards of language usage for centuries. Opposing the traditional grammarians is the group called the structural linguists, or structuralists. The structuralists challenge the traditionalists by the insistence of freedom of expression through efficiency and limitation of guidelines. The debate between the traditionalists and the structuralists is not new, and becau