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A literary history of the strange expression ‘what is it like?’

A straightforward question that changed its function and took universal hold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2015

Anne Seaton
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Extract

Much serious linguistic attention is at present focused on recent and ever more extraordinary developments in the use of the ubiquitous like. In this article I want to take a more light-hearted look at the journey of what is it like? as a way of asking for a description.

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 21 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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