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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,
“... of its good and bad angels, the authoritative and the authoritarian. Linguistic conservatives like John Simon, who sometimes seem not only not to mind being disliked but to thrive on it, do not shrink from such acts of authority as will promptly be branded authoritarian – a word wielded in Sidney Greenbaum’s tour de task-force The English Language ... ”
