An examination of the nature, history and roles of classicisms in English and other European languages

A discussion of the role of print in defining and sustaining International Standard English

A consideration of the nature of English as an international medium

ANTHEA FRASER GUPTA considers changing attitudes in Asia, and particularly Singapore, regarding the virtues and vices of the English language.

The impact and implications of British and American pronunciation models in South America's largest country

A report on the history and current condition of English in southern South America

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

A consideration of whether the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language is getting better or worse

DONALD MacQUEEN flies a linguistic kite regarding how the rhotic/non-rhotic division might have arisen in the English of Restoration London in the seventeenth century.

JEROME BETTS considers the use of in and on in such frames as ‘I met him – the street’.