Round Robin (n) A petition in which the signees write their names in a circular pattern. Often used by sailors so that none of the signees could be identified as the ringleader, as a precaution against the severe punishments for disobedience and mutiny.
I believe that in writing, form doesn’t follow function, but form is function. I am a historical sociolinguist, specialised in questions of language standardisation usage and prescriptivism, language attitudes and the standard language, as well as Late Modern letter writing, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. I teach writing and presenting in academic English. I am also an editor and reviewer of works on language, particularly English usage and the history of English.