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Volume 3 - July 1987

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  • Progress report

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, p. 2
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  • Are you into lexicophilia?

  • Tom McArthur
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  • Phase Two

  • Tom McArthur
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  • Dealing with doxies

  • Tom McArthur
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  • Post & Mail

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    17 October 2008, pp. 3-10
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  • Post & Mail

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  • Managing the media

  • Len Masterman
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    17 October 2008, pp. 9-12

  • Should young people be trained in the English classroom to understand and assess television, cinema, radio and the press? If so, what form should that training take?

  • How many words?

  • David Crystal
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    17 October 2008, pp. 11-14

  • It is often said that the English language is particularly rich in vocabulary, but to make such a statement we need to know what words to count and what counts as a word.

  • Yes, but WHICH dictionary?

  • Reinhard Hartmann, Richard W Bailey, Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, pp. 10-17

  • Dictionaries of English today draw upon a tradition that is almost 400 years old. Depending on your point of view, this is a tradition of competition and cross-fertilization, of plagiarism and lexicographical incest, or something that has wavered and wandered between high originality and low theft. Some commentators have even argued that many English dictionaries are just variations on a common text that has been evolving since the 17th century.

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  • The English languages?

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, pp. 9-13
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  • In recent years there have been suggestions that English could break up into mutually unintelligible languages, much as Latin once did. Could such a break-up occur, or are we in need of a new appreciation of the nature of World English?

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  • On the writing of grammars

  • Sidney Greenbaum
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    17 October 2008, pp. 15-17

  • Grammar books are written for many purposes and with different users in mind. What are the particular problems of the scholarly reference grammar towards the end of the 20th century?

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