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Christopher Ricks, 6 June 1985
The English Language Today
edited by Sidney Greenbaum.
Pergamon, 345 pp., £12.50, December 1984,0 08 031078 8 Show More
edited by Sidney Greenbaum.
Pergamon, 345 pp., £12.50, December 1984,
The English Language
by Robert Burchfield.
Oxford, 194 pp., £9.50, January 1985,9780192191731 Show More
by Robert Burchfield.
Oxford, 194 pp., £9.50, January 1985,
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik.
Longman, 1779 pp., £39.50, May 1985,0 582 51734 6 Show More
by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik.
Longman, 1779 pp., £39.50, May 1985,
Faux Amis and Key Words: A Dictionary-Guide to French Language, Culture and Society through Lookalikes and Confusables
by Philip Thody, Howard Evans and Gwilym Rees.
Athlone, 224 pp., £16, February 1985,0 485 11243 4 Show More
by Philip Thody, Howard Evans and Gwilym Rees.
Athlone, 224 pp., £16, February 1985,
Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism
edited by D.J. Enright.
Oxford, 222 pp., £9.95, April 1985,0 19 212236 3 Show More
edited by D.J. Enright.
Oxford, 222 pp., £9.95, April 1985,
“... speaking which would offer an advance. There is no sign that this is likely to happen. True, Sir Peter Medawar effected a brief release when challenging his field’s version of the nature-nurture antithesis with the instance of innate potentialities never to be actualised unless the environment were right. But feud is collusive, and the parties usually ... ”
