From the purely economic point of view, is Standard English in this Caribbean nation just so much dead stock on dusty shelves?

A leading American journalist points out that the world speaks English – but often none too well

ADRIAN ROOM looks at occasional boobs and blunders in Britain's traditional newspaper of record

An account of Sranan, Saramaccan, Ndjuka and other creoles based on English in a former Dutch colony in northern South America

A consideration of how the everyday spelling system can be used more effectively than phonetic symbols in English pronunciation guides

An analysis of how Salman Rushdie destabilizes the Western bias in English

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American, usages

Following the articles by Pam Peters (‘Australian Style’) and Arthur Delbridge and Colin Yallop (‘The Macquarie Dictionary’) in ET45, a consideration of what makes English in Australia distinctive

FRANCES D'SOUZA reports on the mission and achievements of Article 19, an organization founded to fight censorship throughout the world.

DAVID CRYSTAL comments wryly on some implications of the BBC's annual Reith Lectures, given this year on language and linguistics by Jean Aitchison, the Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford. A less developed version of the article appeared in ‘The Independent on Sunday’ in February 1996

An analysis with European implications of whether the expansion of English-medium education in India is restricting the evolution of Indian languages

MICHAEL ERARD discusses the role of the colon in a major aspect of academic life

KATE BURRIDGE places PC usage within the long tradition of euphemistic expression

PAUL RASTALL takes a linguistic stroll round an English country garden

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American, usages

An account of syllabic stress in English words which emphasizes the regularity of many patterns of word stress

SAMUEL AHULU raises some points relating to Edmund O. Bamiro's ‘Innovation in Nigerian English’ (ET39, Jul 94)

A review of the problems learners of English can have with actual and borderline taboo usages in the United States