A development of the article ‘Estuary English – tomorrow's RP?’ (ET37, Jan 94) which considers the salient features of this ‘new’ accent in terms of institutional descriptions of Received Pronunciation

An examination of the many similarities in the English of West Africa and South Asia

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY lists some more neologisms, novel senses, and similar occurrences that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries.

TOM McARTHUR looks at some creative developments among phrasal verbs, novelty in Japanese car names and a sample of translation from American into Australian

A description of the ‘vigorous and variegated’ English-language press in Africa's largest anglophone country

An account of how and why a mysterious new word more or less replaced a once-universal predecessor

An assessment of the ways in which certain words co-occur and others do not