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		<title>Prepare to wince</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his recent article &#8220;Whose English?&#8221; in the Financial Times, Michael Skapinker describes the growing popularity of English in the non-English speaking world. For example, one South Korean politician is promising that if elected he will greatly increase the availability of English language teaching in the country so that families are not &#8220;separated for English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worse than hieroglyphics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 14:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article by Sam Dunn in today&#8217;s Independent on Sunday compares the user information that accompanies financial products to Egyptian hieroglyphics, and unsurprisingly, the hieroglyphics come off best.
For some unscrupulous companies, jargon and obscure language can help to sell products or services. Customers cowed or dazzled by technical or impressive-sounding language will be reluctant to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invented English: &quot;smokefree&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 08:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to create publicity material to accompany the implementation of a law making it illegal to smoke in enclosed places, the UK Department of Health (DoH) have invented a new  word: &#8220;smokefree&#8221;. 
In fact they have an entire campaign going on about &#8220;Smokefree England&#8220;.
I am in despair about this. Not, let me explain, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better grammar &#8211; at your local supermarket now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a news item on the Plain English Campaign&#8217;s web site, the Tesco supermarket chain is to replace the signs reading &#8220;10 items or less&#8221; with new signs reading &#8220;Up to 10 items&#8221;.Lovers of good English usage have always been infuriated by the old signs because they ignored the rule that &#8220;fewer&#8221; is used [...]]]></description>
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