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The Fat Owl of the Remove meets the Ness Peril!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Laurie Bauer
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Extract

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).

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 39 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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Williams, Theodore. 1965. ‘On the “-ness” peril.’ In American Speech 40, pp. 279–286.CrossRefGoogle Scholar