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A correspondent has come across a book written by an American Christian priest who has used a small 'c' for Christian . Finding this...

An American correspondent, working in sales, notes that 'salespersons think too much of themselves and use I far more than they use you...

The rehearsed reading of Living On took place last Monday in front of a large crowd at SOAS in London, and was warmly received. It was foll...

An unusual question from a correspondent: 'Do I ever repeat myself?' He was referring to an earlier post ('On writing how many b...

A correspondent from abroad writes to express his puzzlement over the difference between such linguistic terms as alphabetic and alphabetic...

A correspondent asks whether hyphenated or non-hyphenated forms are the norm in such linguistic terms as phrase marker , form class , word c...

A correspondent interested in linguistics terminology asks: 'What is the difference between the terms in such pairs as acute and acute ...