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Volume 5 - Issue 1 - January 1989

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Comment

  • Cover to cover

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, p. 2
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Angles of Vision

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A Way with Words

Crossworld

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Kaleidoscope

  • Kaleidoscope

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    17 October 2008, pp. 30-33

  • According to Michael Richardson in the International Herald Tribune, Singapore is suffering from ‘a Cultural Tug-of-War’ (29 Sep 88).

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Usage

  • Why did he say it?

  • David Crystal
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    17 October 2008, pp. 41-42
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News

  • News

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    17 October 2008, p. 43
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Lexicon

  • The cohorts are coming

  • Paul Christophersen
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    17 October 2008, pp. 44-45

  • Dorothy Sayers would surely have turned in her grave if she could have heard, as I did a few months ago, a BBC announcer introducing a dramatization of her story Gaudy Night by a few remarks about the heroine, Harriet Vane, and her ‘cohort’, Lord Peter Wimsey. Or perhaps she would have been convulsed with laughter at the absurd contrast between Lord Peter in his sober Savile Row suit and the cohorts in Byron's well-known lines:

    The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.

  • Render Unto Caesar

  • Pam Peters
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  • The obstetrical expression ‘caesarean section’ (also spelled with a capital C, with -e- instead of -ae- in the first syllable, and with -ian instead of -ean at the end) has always been associated with Julius Caesar. The tradition goes back to the first century AD, when Pliny explained that the name Caesar was coined on the fact that its most famous bearer had been born ‘a caeso matris ventro’ (out of his mother's cut belly).

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Post and Mail

  • Post & Mail

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    17 October 2008, pp. 57-62
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