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LANGUAGE A CASUALTY OF CULTURE WARS.(Editorial)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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February 25, 1999
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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As one who loves language and words, I recently became a delighted owner of that ultimate source of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary. Mind you, all I could afford was the ``compact'' one-volume version. The real thing (20 volumes) would have required me to mortgage my wife, children and the family dog.
My compact version came with a powerful magnifying glass, an object of beauty in itself. The magnifying glass enlarges the text to a size legible with the help of reading glasses in the glare of a 200-watt light bulb. I think it must have been added as a standard accessory to avert multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Without it, I can envision the claims by ...
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