A report on how Oxford and Cambridge have prepared a Bible for the end of the 20th century.

In the last issue, an editor of the new OED described his work. Here, an observer looks in on the OED2e being prepared.

An analysis of the style and content of the South China Morning Post and the Hongkong Standard.

MICHAEL BULLEY is dubious about the prospects of computers ever acquiring the infinitely flexible human art of language.

The television cop series Miami Vice has had an impact at least on names used in Miami, Florida, where the action is. Some local officials were at first upset by the title of the show, arguing that it put the city in a bad light. However, neologistic entrepreneurs showed that the title had potential. As a result, there are now Miami Mice (a pest-control company), Miami Twice (a secondhand clothing store), Miami Spice (a shop for seasonings), Miamic Nice (a chiropractor), and Miami Slice (a luncheonette) – as reported by the New York Times Service, May 1989.

An account of the curious impact of the study of English on the use of Korean.

Why do some foreign users of English make certain, almost predictable ‘mistakes’?

Some things appear to be harder to announce than others.

As the mother of a 10-year-old boy as well as the language teacher of adult migrants, I am often in a position to wonder at the glib, confident, oral fluency of my child in contrast to the hesitant, halting, broken, jerking, unassured, more-miss-than-hit staccato of my language students. Many a time have I, on their behalf, envied my boy his brash, native fluency, wishing some of it would blow their way, onto their fractured lives which could be so transformed but for the barrier that is language. There must be many a language teacher yearning to facilitate this kind of verbal flow and confidence in their students.