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Volume 16 - October 2000

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An on-line OED
John Simpson, Edmund Weiner
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17 October 2008, pp. 12-19
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An up-date on the latest incarnation of one of the world's most remarkable dictionaries

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Asia's Englishes and World Englishes
Braj B. Kachru
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17 October 2008, pp. 17-22
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Sprightly muddles and errors
Fraser Sutherland
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17 October 2008, pp. 19-20
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Just could be a first for sensible dating
Jon G. Auerbach
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17 October 2008, pp. 18-19
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Car Murder Hubby Caged – and other murderous headlines
Jean Aitchison, Diana Lewis, Bronwyn Naylor
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17 October 2008, pp. 23-30
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A study of how newspapers catch their readers’ eyes

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Hong Kong Tanka
Andrew Parkin
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17 October 2008, pp. 20-21
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ANDREW PARKIN uses a Japanese poetic form in English to describe his response to historic change in China

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Canadian spelling choices
Christopher Upward
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17 October 2008, pp. 20-22
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Language change and adaptation in a Tok Pisin newspaper
Stephen Levey
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17 October 2008, pp. 20-25
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Aspects of variation in the Papua-New Guinea newspaper ‘Wantok’

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Why does ‘everybody’?
Barbara Carton, Barbara Glickler
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17 October 2008, pp. 31-32
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On Serb and Serbian
Göran Kjellmer
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17 October 2008, pp. 26-27
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GÖRAN KJELLMER reviews the recent use of two synonyms that may be more – or less – than synonymous

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Email: a challenge to Standard English?
Li Lan
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17 October 2008, pp. 23-29
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A survey of an ‘organic, evolving and dynamic’ hybrid between writing and speech and language and language

English lexicography in Fiji
Jan Tent
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17 October 2008, pp. 22-28
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An account of how the lexis of Fiji English is being recorded1

Surfing e-mails
Li Yongyan
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17 October 2008, pp. 30-34
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A survey of styles in e-mailing and an e-invitation to interested readers

Rethinking ELT
Marko Modiano
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17 October 2008, pp. 28-34
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A response in detail to comments on the article ‘International English in the global village’ (ET58: Apr 99), further developing the idea of EIL (English as an International Languge) in ET60 (Oct 99)

Interanto: the global language of signs
Tom McArthur
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17 October 2008, pp. 33-43
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A tale of two cities (Zurich and Uppsala)and their street and store signs

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Today, 01-06-99
Jon G. Auerbach
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17 October 2008, pp. 29-30
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Diversity, yes – but what is the English teacher to do?
Paul Rastall
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17 October 2008, pp. 35-37
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Tongue slips and Singapore English pronunciation
Adam Brown
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17 October 2008, pp. 31-36
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The nature and significance of slips of the tongue, especially in multilingual Singapore

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Tom McArthur
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17 October 2008, pp. 35-39
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[hat], [hæt], and all that
Edmund Weiner, Clive Upton
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17 October 2008, pp. 44-46
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Edmund Weiner and Clive Upton of the Oxford English Dictionary respond to Michael Bulley's article ‘It isn't /hæt/, it's/hat/!’ (ET58, Apr 99)

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