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Volume 14 - October 1998

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Linguistic aspects of the cryptic crossword
Steve Coffey
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17 October 2008, pp. 14-18
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STEVE COFFEY confronts the enigmatic language of a puzzling word game

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Is the end of the hyphen in sight?
Tim Connell
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17 October 2008, pp. 15-20
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A report on the ways in which hyphenation habits have been changing in recent years

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Crossworld
Frank Palmer
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17 October 2008, p. 20
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Grammatical variation in international English
Samuel Ahulu
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17 October 2008, pp. 19-25
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The second and final part of a discussion on the teaching and learning of English as a universal medium

German loanwords and cultural stereotypes
Michael Stubbs
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17 October 2008, pp. 19-26
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An analysis of loanwords from German into English, found through computer-assisted lexical research

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Crossworld
Frank Palmer
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17 October 2008, p. 26
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Cyberdictionaries
Li Lan
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17 October 2008, pp. 21-24
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LI LAN considers the current state of on-line lexicography

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Guides to tomorrow's English
Tom McArthur
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17 October 2008, pp. 21-26
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A review of the kinds of dictionaries now being created to cope with English as a universal language

Celebrating variation: Harold Orton and dialectology, 1898–1998
Katie Wales, Clive Upton
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17 October 2008, pp. 27-33
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A centenary discussion of the work and the on-going influence of a pioneering English dialectologist

Determiners: a class apart
Roger Berry
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17 October 2008, pp. 27-34
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Some problems encountered in the compilation of ‘Collins COBUILD English Guides 10: Determiners and Quantifiers’

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How many words in YOUR dictionary?
Howard Jackson
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17 October 2008, pp. 27-28
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HOWARD JACKSON considers how hard it is to figure out just what is on offer in an average general dictionary

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The folly of language planning; Or, A brief history of the English language in Hong Kong
Martha C. Pennington
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17 October 2008, pp. 25-30
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How mixed language usage evolved as a natural compromise between educational policy and social reality

Lexical variation in international English
Samuel Ahulu
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17 October 2008, pp. 29-34
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A discussion towards the teaching and learning of English as a universal medium

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Defending Plain English: ‘We should not have to keep correcting the record’
George Maher
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17 October 2008, pp. 35-36
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Understanding the object in packages
Paul Rastall
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17 October 2008, pp. 31-32
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PAUL RASTALL takes on an overlooked area of domestic grammar

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What hope for a trilingual Hong Kong?
Joseph Boyle
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17 October 2008, pp. 34-39
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An assessment of the language prospects in China's new Special Administrative Region (SAR)

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‘Plain English is not an absolute’
Martin Cutts
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17 October 2008, pp. 36-38
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CanOD can do: an e-mail interview
Katherine Barber
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17 October 2008, pp. 35-40
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The editor of ‘English Today’ talks electronically to KATHERINE BARBER, the editor of the ‘Canadian Oxford Dictionary’, just out. (See also p. 20.)

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South Africa's language ghosts
Peter J. H. Titlestad
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17 October 2008, pp. 33-39
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In nineteenth-century England, Dickens wrote about the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, imagery that can be applied to South Africa today

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Language rights: Not political but scientific correctness
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
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17 October 2008, pp. 40-43
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TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS replies to Anthea Fraser Gupta (‘Language rights’, ET50: Apr 97) regarding issues of linguistic diversity

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