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English: ‘The Chosen Tongue’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

P. D. Tripathi
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A ‘liberation linguist’ takes a long hard look at ‘the language on which the sun does not set, whose users never sleep’ (Randolph Quirk)

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English Today , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1992 , pp. 3 - 11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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