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Volume 3 - Issue 4 - October 1987

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Comment

  • Phase Two

  • 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. 3-10
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Special Features

  • How many words?

  • David Crystal
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    17 October 2008, pp. 11-14

  • It is often said that the English language is particularly rich in vocabulary, but to make such a statement we need to know what words to count and what counts as a word.

  • On the writing of grammars

  • Sidney Greenbaum
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    17 October 2008, pp. 15-17

  • Grammar books are written for many purposes and with different users in mind. What are the particular problems of the scholarly reference grammar towards the end of the 20th century?

Crossworld

A Way with Words

Angles of Vision

Special Features

  • Doublespeak at large

  • William Lutz
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    17 October 2008, pp. 21-24

  • The editor of a quarterly devoted to the analysis and exposure of doublespeak describes some prize specimens and how his organization counters them.

News

  • The new Trojans

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    17 October 2008, p. 25
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Kaleidoscope

  • Blanding out with a glass of blush

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    17 October 2008, pp. 26-28

  • A wide range of newspapers, news-letters, cuttings and clippings, catalogues and correspondence arrives (and is welcomed) on ET's editorial desk. From the mass that goes into our files comes this mix of couth comments, odd usages, consumer-conscious acronyms, sexual neologisms, and arcane expressions.

Special Features

  • The tentative female

  • Bent Preisler
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    17 October 2008, pp. 29-30

  • In ET1, Jenny Cheshire looked at male bias and in ET2 Mary Brown Parlee discussed ‘genderlects’ and conversational politics. A Danish linguist now presents some evidence that women and men do use the language differently.

Usage

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  • English as a decorative language

  • John Dougill
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    17 October 2008, pp. 33-35

  • In ET6, Gillian Kay described how Japanese absorbs and re-shapes the words of English. There is, however, another trend in Japan, in which English is used as a social and commercial accessory.

  • The redoubtable Roget

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, pp. 36-39

  • Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, recently editor of the Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, has just completed the latest revision of Roget's Thesaurus for Longman. What is the history and purpose of this now venerable tome?

Lexicon

Reviews

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Front cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

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