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Of ships and snarks and sealing-wax, and presidents and things
Tom McArthur
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Themself
Tom McArthur
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A touch of serendipity
Tom McArthur
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It all takes time
Tom McArthur
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A coordinated president
E. Leo McMannus
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A review of the style and usage of President George Bush

The encyclop(a)edic word game
David Crystal
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Tales of the unexpected in editing a general encyclopedia

The Germanic heritage
Paul Christophersen
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An assessment of what English has inherited from Anglo-Saxon, Low German and the Scandinavian languages

Language varieties and standard language
Randolph Quirk
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The text of a lecture delivered at the JALT (Japanese Association of Language Teachers) Conference in 1988.

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Bushery
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On observing World English
Laurence Urdang
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The text of a speech given in April 1989 at the celebration marking the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Noah Webster, at Noah Webster House, Hartford, Connecticut.

Nota Bene
Whitney Bolton
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A word-processing package for academic writers

Is English a Romance language?
Jean-Marc Gachelin
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A review of the ties that bind English, Latin and the languages derived from Latin

A Way with Words

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English in tiers
Tom McArthur
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A look at the complex layering of the vocabulary that English has inherited from Germanic, Romance and Greek.

E pluribus boojum
N. David Mermin
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A physicist's account of how he launched a scientific snark.

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The CD-ROM revolution
Peter Cook
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