A description of the nature and work of Style Council, an institution unique to Australia, and a review of usage research currently in progress

A report on the dictionary that carries an Australian passport

An analysis of how Salman Rushdie destabilizes the Western bias in English

An analysis with European implications of whether the expansion of English-medium education in India is restricting the evolution of Indian languages

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American, usages

A study of the use of football and baseball jargon in present-day American English

YAMUNA KACHRU published the article “Contrastive rhetoric in world Englishes” in ET41 (Jan 95), prompting a letter from Reinhard Hartmann that appeared in ET42 (Apr 95). The following is Kachru's reply to Hartmann.

An examination of unidentified flying objects from linguistic, social, and folkloric perspectives

One never quite knows what will catch on with ET readers and what will pass unremarked. Certainly, Louise Sylvester's piece ‘Unusual and dialect terms for scarecrows’ in ET42 (Apr 95) has prompted a remarkable – and painstakingly detailed – response, in the two replies that follow.

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY lists some more new words and senses that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries.