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Old 22-May-2008, 02:06
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Ah well, some people just don't like the Oxford English Dictionary.
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You can trash this one too. He suggests; "... For the long answer, take a look at Fowler (Modern English Usage) and the OED."

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But you shouldn't offer him up to ESLs or anyone for that matter as an authority on the English language, Anglika.
I respect both of you as authorities and so why undermine one another?
I wonder if anyone would mind having look at my tread that is killing me because I have no answer to it.This is the link:
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My attempt was not and is not to undermine Anglika. Anglika didn't write these books/articles/dictionaries/opinion pages.

When sources, the very sources that are the root cause of ESL confusion, are offered as reliable sources, [can I get one more 'sources' in there? ] someone must speak up.

I would expect no less from other teachers and students who disagree with anything I write in these pages.

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