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Volume 2 - Issue 2 - April 1986

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  • Linguicidal tendencies?

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, p. 2
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  • Post & Mail

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    17 October 2008, pp. 3-6
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  • The French Reaction

  • Colin Boswell
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    17 October 2008, pp. 13-14

  • Some languages when threatened receive the full protection of the law – and yet the hybrids flourish and the risks continue. French, English and franglais are a case in point.

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  • The curious case of QWERTY

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    17 October 2008, p. 17
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  • Non-stick accents

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    17 October 2008, p. 17
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  • Latter-day Latin

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    17 October 2008, p. 17
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Angles of Vision

  • Broad, low and close to the ground

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    17 October 2008, pp. 18-19

  • Robert McCrum was the originator and scriptwriter for the BBC television series ‘The Story of English’, which will be broadcast later this year in the UK and USA. He talks to English Today about the background to the series and its companion book (Faber and the BBC).

Crossworld

A Way with Words

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  • An endangered language?

  • David F Marshall
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    17 October 2008, pp. 21-24

  • In a world where English threatens many other languages it is hard to imagine the English language under attack, but some campaigners in the United States insist that it is – and needs constitutional protection.

Usage

  • Tense matters

  • David Crystal, Valerie Lambert, Bill Broughton, Frank Palmer
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    17 October 2008, pp. 28-30

  • Tenses crop up in two ways in this issue, both inspired by readers' letters. The first referred to the use of the present perfect on both sides of the Atlantic, and DAVID CRYSTAL looks at that. The second is the puzzling ‘plupluperfect’, and VALERIE LAMBERT, BILL BROUGHTON and FRANK PALMER look at that.

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  • The Problem of purism

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, pp. 34-35
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  • Prompted by a variety of letters from readers about deterioration and falling language standards, TOM McARTHUR discusses purism and the standard language, past and present.

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