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Volume 4 - Issue 1 - January 1988

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  • Aware of what?

  • Tom McArthur
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    17 October 2008, p. 2
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Post and Mail

  • Post & Mail

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    17 October 2008, pp. 3-11
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  • The word-watchers

  • Fred Parrott
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    17 October 2008, pp. 17-20

  • People complain to the editors of many periodicals about other people's usages. Teachers labour in many institutions to pass on shibboleths that they themselves were taught. Do such dedicated efforts make much difference to the language at large?

Crossworld

A Way with Words

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  • Language awareness

  • Paul Harvey
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    17 October 2008, pp. 23-28

  • What might the phrase ‘awareness of language’ or ‘language awareness’ mean to different people, and what could it mean to anyone seriously interested in English as a successful international medium?

  • A new kind of examination

  • George Wiley
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    17 October 2008, pp. 29-33

  • Traditionally, in England and Wales, higher-level examinations in English have concentrated more on literature (and the language of literature and formal usage) than on language at large. There are, however, signs of change.

Kaleidoscope

  • So-called Roque Fart

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    17 October 2008, pp. 34-36

  • A wide range of newsletters, clippings and cuttings, catalogues and correspondence arrives (and is welcomed) on ET's editorial desk. From the mass that goes into our files comes this mix of curious usages, arcane acronyms, neologisms and nonce forms.

Angles of Vision

  • Facets of spelling

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    17 October 2008, pp. 37-39

  • Chris Upward, Conference Organiser, Department of Modern Languages, Aston University.

News

  • News

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    17 October 2008, pp. 40-42
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  • The horseman's words

  • Margot Lawrence
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    17 October 2008, pp. 43-46

  • Horses have been important in the British Isles since at least Roman times, and users of English have taken their interest in horses with them to many parts of the world. As a result, the language abounds in expressions from the now largely vanished world of horses, coaches and hunting.

Usage

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  • The view from China

  • Keqi Hao
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    17 October 2008, pp. 50-52

  • A professor at Jiaotong University, in Shaanxi Province of the People's Republic of China, outlines her views on the need for an adequately standardized international English.

From Our Files

Lexicon

  • Word castles in Spain

  • Fuan Ramón Lodares
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    17 October 2008, pp. 54-58

  • JUAN RAMÓN LODARES draws attention to a combination of archaic romanticism and simple error at work in the description of words of Spanish origin in some dictionaries of English.

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