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David Crystal · Just a Phrase I'm Going Through · linguistics

David Crystal – a diamond geezer!

July 15, 2009 John2 Comments

Anyone familiar with the work of David Crystal will already know what a prolific author on all questions to do with the English language he is. If a single year doesn’t bring at least two new publications, I begin to wonder if he is at last beginning to slow down. So, it was with particular… Continue reading David Crystal – a diamond geezer!

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