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Volume 9 - Issue 4 - October 1993

Contents

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Comment

  • An end to the brazen rip-off

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, p. 2
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Arels

Research Article

Crossworld

Research Article

  • Is English we speaking

  • Mervyn Morris
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    17 October 2008, pp. 18-26

  • IN SAMUEL SELVON's The Lonely Londoners (set in the 1950s), Galahad, a Trinidadian immigrant into Britain, is talking with an English woman, Daisy. After their first date they are sipping tea in his basement bedsitter:

    ‘You get that raise the foreman was promising you?’ Galahad ask, for something to say.

Kaleidoscope

  • Kaleidoscope

  • Thomas M. Paikeday
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    17 October 2008, pp. 27-28

  • THOMAS M. PAIREDAY lists some more neologisms that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries. Readers' comments and additions are invited.

Research Article

Angles of Vision

  • English 2000: ‘A networked future’

  • Roger Bowers
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    17 October 2008, pp. 34-37

  • ROGER BOWERS, Director of Professional Services, the British Council, gave the following talk about the prospects of British ELTas a ‘knowledge-based industry’ at the BBC English 50th Anniversary Forum, entitled ‘Fifty years on’, held during the 1993 IATEFL conference in Swansea, Wales.

Research Article

Lexicon

  • Decoding the postcode

  • Adrian Room
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    17 October 2008, pp. 42-44

  • Following up Dennis Baron's ‘Dial 1-800-M4MURDR’ (ET33, Jan 93), ADRIAN ROOM describes the development and nature of the British and other codes for postal addresses

Research Article

Usage

  • What's in a name, Bob?

  • David Crystal
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    17 October 2008, pp. 53-54
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  • DAVID CRYSTAL considers the differences in the sound structures of first names for women and men

Reviews & Displays

Post & Mail

  • Post & Mail

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    17 October 2008, pp. 62-64
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Front cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

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