An account of how lexical items once confined to one gender have begun to be used for both in American English

A consideration of the nature and use of the language in the EU in terms of Braj Kachru's model of the inner, outer, and expanding circles of world Englishes

An assessment of how an electronic network that originated in the United States using only American English has become a global resource

A fresh perspective on the prescription-versus-description debate, including a new approach to such pronominal (ab)use as ‘between you and I’

A wide-ranging report on British, American and other national publishing houses competing on a global scale

Following on from Michael Rundell's article on the spoken component of the British National Corpus (ET43, Apr 95), an account of MUM, the BNC Collection of Miscellaneous Unpublished Material

An examination of why people regard some words as inherently more beautiful than others

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