The Quarterly Review, Volume 286William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1948 |
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... English is now the most advanced analytical language almost a world- language of which none need be ashamed . Basic English has now been accepted , like Pidgin , by the British Government as an auxiliary international language , a lead ...
... English is now the most advanced analytical language almost a world- language of which none need be ashamed . Basic English has now been accepted , like Pidgin , by the British Government as an auxiliary international language , a lead ...
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... English , really a class dialect , from educated English spoken all over the world with a wide range of variation . Why should any speaker submerge his geographical origin ? There is need of a universal English acceptable in America and ...
... English , really a class dialect , from educated English spoken all over the world with a wide range of variation . Why should any speaker submerge his geographical origin ? There is need of a universal English acceptable in America and ...
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... English ; Mr Roosevelt followed in support . • Such a standard universal English would for a time go hand in hand with dialect . The compromise is being brought about gradually and is free from offence on both sides of the water and ...
... English ; Mr Roosevelt followed in support . • Such a standard universal English would for a time go hand in hand with dialect . The compromise is being brought about gradually and is free from offence on both sides of the water and ...
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