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Some geopolitical changes
Tim Connell
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17 October 2008, pp. 50-51
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In usage matters, everything is open to change. TIM CONNELL looks at some alterations in the geography of English

VNTYPL8
Sharon Gordon
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17 October 2008, pp. 49-54
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A sampling and discussion of what can be done on Californian roads with only six to eight letters and numbers

Sexual orientation and the Oxford Dictionary of Slang
Gloria George
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17 October 2008, pp. 52-57
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A review of the category ‘Sexual orientation’ in John Ayto's new dictionary (see also p. 58) and a consideration of ‘queer’ slang at large

Loanwords or foreignisms?
Yinquan Wang
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17 October 2008, pp. 55-58
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YINQUAN WANG in Nanjing, China, considers the ease with which English absorbs words from other languages and how such words are currently handled in the newsmagazines ‘Time’ and ‘Newsweek’

Wombatography
Lois Aleta Fundis
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17 October 2008, pp. 35-38
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The following text constitutes the foreword by LOIS ALETA FUNDIS (reference librarian, Mary H. Weir Public Library, West Virginia, USA) to ‘Stumpers! Answers to Hundreds of Questions that Stumped the Experts’, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, Random House, New York, 1998. The answers thematically presented in this paperback (pp. xviii + 236, ISBN 0-375-70174-5, $12.95) were provided by US librarians in their own Internet discussion group, Stumpers!, which was started in 1992 by Anne Freeney, a student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Rosary College (now Dominican University) in Illinois. Some wombats chanced to go along for the ride, and ET here honours them and their lexically and bibliographically gifted friends.

The Fat Owl of the Remove meets the Ness Peril!
Laurie Bauer
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17 October 2008, pp. 39-42
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Reflections on some changes this century in what is taken to be worthwhile reading, looking in particular at how a trick of word-forming style was once used to highlight the brokenfulness of broken English.
— ‘The allrightfulness will be terrific’ (BBMSA, 52: see panel).

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