Pullum
Proper noun
Meaning
Pullum (plural Pullums)
A surname.
Examples
Huddleston and Pullum suggest that in a sentence like that, the word “my” may combine both “the syntactic functions of determiner and subject”—that is, it may be acting as a subject as well as a modifier.
Huddleston and Pullum consider their “both” example above ambiguous, since it could mean that no pies at all were eaten, or only one.
Huddleston and Pullum note that epistemic modality is “commonly expressed by other means than modal auxiliaries.”
Pullum describes the coordinator use of “slash” as “a new discovery about English” and “a fairly surprising one.”
Pullum points out that what you’re hearing is “an isolated survival of an extinct construction type” that hasn’t been in common use for the last 50 to 100 years.
Pullum and Ladusaw list a variety of names in use for IPA symbols, both current and retired, in addition to names of many other non-IPA phonetic symbols.