Noam’s Ark
Walter Nash, 25 October 1990
The Twitter Machine: Reflections on Language
by Neil Smith.
Blackwell, 275 pp., £9.95, September 1989,0 631 16926 1 Show More
by Neil Smith.
Blackwell, 275 pp., £9.95, September 1989,
English in Use
by Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein.
Longman, 262 pp., £17.95, September 1990,0 582 06612 3 Show More
by Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein.
Longman, 262 pp., £17.95, September 1990,
“... antiquarians and combative eccentrics. Now Sir Randolph, in fruitful collaboration with Professor Gabriele Stein of the University of Heidelberg, has returned to his educative theme with a volume entitled – almost palindromically – English in Use. The result is something more than a script refurbished: old topics are revisited, and new ones ... ”