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		<title>Why &quot;correctness&quot; matters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native speakers of English &#8211; or any other language &#8211; seem to know how to use their own language, and what is correct in language use, even without formal study of the rules of grammar. People just seem to know &#8220;what sounds right&#8221;. Many very wise people have written about this at length and I [...]]]></description>
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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>Invented English: &quot;smokefree&quot;</title>
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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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