English Today: Volume 16 - Issue 3

Paul Christophersen: a largeness of vision
David Christophersen
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17 October 2008, pp. 3-5
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DAVID CHRISTOPHERSEN writes about the remarkable life of his father, whose death on 30th December 1999 at 88, peacefully at home in Cambridge, England, brought to an end one of the last living links to the tradition of analytical grammar and philosophy associated with the great Danish Anglicist Otto Jespersen.

Where have all the Celtic words gone?
Loreto Todd
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17 October 2008, pp. 6-10
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A consideration of whether there has been more Celtic influence on English than commentators have traditionally conceded

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

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

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

Orthography and identity: An overview of the aims and findings of the Langscape project
Pam Peters
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17 October 2008, pp. 37-41
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PAM PETERS of Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, provides the first part of a two-part general concluding review of the Langscape Project, a major contribution to the creation of her prospective world English style guide (to be published by Cambridge University Press)

A response to Langscape 6
Christopher Upward
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17 October 2008, pp. 42-48
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CHRISTOPHER UPWARD, Editor-in-Chief of the Simplified Spelling Society, in consultation with Society members around the world, responds to Langscape 6.

Indian Pidgin English: myth and reality
Raja Ram Mehrotra
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17 October 2008, pp. 49-52
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A report on a pilot project recently conducted on a disputed variety of English in India

The people and the language engineers
Fred Parrott
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17 October 2008, pp. 53-54
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FRED PARROTT considers some twists, turns, and manoeuvres/ maneuvers in the on-going usage wars

A canon of wider choice
Lawrence Jun Zhang
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17 October 2008, pp. 55-60
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Enlarging the reach of EFL teachers and students at the middle level in the People's Republic of China

ICT teaching
Sheila Burke
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17 October 2008, pp. 61-62
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SHEILA BURKE, a primary school teacher in England, describes how she came to terms with information and communication technology in the classroom (first of two articles)

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