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Me — a purist?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2005

David Crystal
David Crystal
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Akaroa, Gors Avenue, Holyhead, Wales
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Well, I have been called some things in my time, but never, never a ‘purist’! I have spent my life attacking language purists, and purists have spent their lives attacking me. So to see myself introduced thus at the end of Aysha Viswamohan's interesting paper on ‘Code-mixing with a difference’ (ET79: Jul 04) was quite a shock. ‘Many purists like David Crystal believe…’

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English Today , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 63
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press