Titlebook: English – One Tongue, Many Voices; Jan Svartvik,Geoffrey Leech Book 20061st edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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American and British Englishground, especially as it compares and contrasts with British English. (We will use the abbreviation AmE and BrE for these two ‘reference varieties’ in this chapter.) We make no apology for devoting further space to these two regional varieties, particularly AmE. First, between them, they represent a

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Linguistic Change in Progress: Back to the Inner Circle changes in pronunciation, but it is unlikely that grammar will appear on the agenda. This is probably for two reasons. First, most native English speakers are ignorant about the grammar of their mother tongue. Ask them about a grammatical problem, and they will dissolve into joking embarrassment. S

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English into the Futureembryo came a small insular language, which in time grew into a world language. So what will happen to English now? Will there be many Englishes, or just one? Will the international use and learning of English continue to grow? Or will other languages take its place? It is difficult to predict the f

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Book 20012nd editiontructure of health care financing was rapidly changing to managed care and in which there was increasing competition among health care providers. While these phenomena continue to exist, new challenges have emerged, and in particular the explosion of information technology has given way to a global