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Volume 2 - Issue 4 - October 1986

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  • Smoothing out the wrinkles

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, p. 2
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Post and Mail

  • Post & Mail

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    17 October 2008, pp. 3-8
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  • Literacy 2000

  • David Crystal
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    17 October 2008, pp. 9-12

  • What do we understand by the terms ‘literate’ and ‘illiterate’? Could the time ever come when there were no ‘illiterates’ left on earth?

From Our Files

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  • The ambivalent apostrophe

  • Greta D Little
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    17 October 2008, pp. 15-17

  • Punctuation marks like the comma and the question mark are fairly secure in ‘literate’ usage, but one cannot say the same for the apostrophe, whose curious and unstable history and present condition merit some thought.

Angles of Vision

  • The Planned and the Ethnic

  • Arnold Pitt
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    17 October 2008, pp. 18-19

  • 1987 is the centenary year of Esperanto. English Today talks to ARNOLD PITT, editor of Esperanto Teacher, about the most famous of the world's ‘artificial’ languages and its relationship with English.

News

  • News

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    17 October 2008, p. 20
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  • Acts of Identity

  • Robert Le Page
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    17 October 2008, pp. 21-24

  • When new nations are created national languages and identities are often created with them. The British Caribbean in recent decades has provided opportunities to see such processes evolve and to consider their wider implications.

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Crossworld

A Way with Words

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  • Tudor English Today

  • Margot Lawrence
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    17 October 2008, pp. 27-29

  • The legacy of the 16th century stays with us not only in the works of playwrights like Shakespeare but also through the powerful on-going influence of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

  • English on the Mayflower

  • Martyn Wakelin
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    17 October 2008, pp. 30-33

  • When the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth in 1620 they took with them not just their genes and their ideas but also the local dialects that they spoke. Can their styles of speech be reconstructed, much as the original ‘Plimoth Plantation’ has recently been reconstructed?

Kaleidoscope

Usage

  • A history of the plupluperfect

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    17 October 2008, p. 36

  • IAN WATSON's letter on a ‘new’ tense, in ET6 (April 86) has continued to inspire responses. We reproduce his letter once again, with PAUL CHRISTOPHERSEN'S history of what proves to be a very old tense.

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  • Anglo-Irish literature

  • Stephen Wade
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    17 October 2008, pp. 37-40

  • Eighth in our series on the literature of English around the world: an account of the unique contribution of Ireland to literature in English.

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Lexicon

  • Money Talks

  • Ean Taylor
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    17 October 2008, p. 41

  • Every occupation has its own expressions, not least the world of finance. EAN TAYLOR looks at some arcane items used in banks and building societies in England, and would welcome information about parallel usages elsewhere.

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