Are all linguistic varieties of English simply convenient fictions?

What happens in a small country when every citizen speaks English as well as the national language?

A revised and extended version of the opening address to the first National Plain English Conference held in 1990 in Cambridge, England

Following Elizabeth Anne Malischewski's report on the English of Newfoundland (ET24, Oct 90), a review of the many kinds of English in mainland Canada

Military historians will probably say the fighting along Saudi Arabia’s northern border last week was only an early skirmish in the great gulf war of 1991 – but it was real enough, and surely frightening enough, to all those who fought in it (‘In the Heat of Battle’, Newsweek, 11 Feb 91).

A review of recent research in the acquisition of pronunciation skills in learners of English and other languages and of the implications for teachers

A consideration of communication in a multilingual Europe, past and present, including such ‘sublanguages’ as Air Traffic Control Language, Seaspeak, PoliceSpeak, flag language and heraldry

VALERIE OSTARCH considers the ways in which a major American English test works against the interests and morale of those whose competence it is meant to assess

Kachru (1965, 1966) has presented a detailed analysis of the idiosyncratic vocabulary items of Indian English (hereafter IE). He observes that “in India an idiom of English has developed which is Indian in the sense that there are formal and contextual exponents of Indianness in such writing, and the defining-context of such idiom is Indian setting” (1965:396). To illustrate how IE has become culture bound in India, he mentions many formations, such as confusion of caste, dung wash, saltgiver, rape-sister, etc., drawn from IE fiction, and calls them Indianisms.