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Kaleidoscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

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‘Those people, called hostages by the Bush administration and guests by Iraq, are called “guestages” by English-speakers in Baghdad’ (James Rupert, ‘For Hostages in Mideast, Waiting is a No-Man’s-Land Skirmish in War of Nerves’, International Herald Tribune, 3 Oct 90).

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Kaleidoscope
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English Today , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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