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Volume 12 - October 1996

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Taboo words in print
Roshan McArthur
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17 October 2008, pp. 50-58
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A review of Jess Sheidlower's ‘The F-Word’ and Reinhold Aman's ‘Maledicta XI’, together with a chronology of the lexicography of swearing

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Challenging and potentially dangerous times
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17 October 2008, p. 33
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An orthography for Kamtok
Miriam Ayafor
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17 October 2008, pp. 53-57
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A proposal for a standard script for Cameroonian Pidgin English

Cutting deals and striking bargains
Bruce William Jones
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17 October 2008, pp. 35-40
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A present-day American colloquialism appears to have very ancient roots and implications

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On English in Europe
Robert Phillipson
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17 October 2008, pp. 58-59
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ROBERT PHILLIPSON comments on recent articles in ET about English in the European Union, and particularly Ross Smith's ‘Single market, single currency, single language’

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Be enthralled
William Corr
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17 October 2008, pp. 59-60
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The big four: The year of the dictionaries
Robert Allen
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17 October 2008, pp. 41-55
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Two detailed reviews of four key publications in the EFL world in 1995, the first by a British lexicographer, the second by a Belgian language teacher

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Terrible events
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17 October 2008, pp. 33-34
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The OED's NARP
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17 October 2008, pp. 34-35
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Post & Mail
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Honest and refreshing
Anthea Fraser Gupta
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17 October 2008, pp. 60-61
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Less than the sum of its parts
Jack Miller
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17 October 2008, p. 56
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Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
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Meher McArthur
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Roshan McArthur
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Front cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

ENG volume 12 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
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17 October 2008, pp. f1-f2
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ENG volume 12 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
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ENG volume 12 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
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Post & Mail
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Three strikes and you're out
Dilin Liu, Bryan Farha
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17 October 2008, pp. 36-40
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A study of the use of football and baseball jargon in present-day American English

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