[Ads-l] Help tracking down a journal named "English"?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Apr 21 01:12:00 UTC 2017


> On Apr 20, 2017, at 8:27 PM, Baron, Dennis E <debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU> wrote:
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> Follow-up: English was a monthly journal published in London starting March, 1919 and went out of print some time in 1920. FInding nothing in WorldCat, BL, or LC

Next time someone rails about how a new usage, construction, or other linguistic practice will mean the death of English, we can point out that this demise already took place, back in 1920.

LH
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> Dennis Baron
> Professor of English and Linguistics
> Department of English
> University of Illinois
> 608 S. Wright St.
> Urbana, IL 61801
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> office: 217-244-0568
> English Dept: 217-333-2390
> fax: 217-333-4321
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> http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron<http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron>
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> read the Web of Language:
> https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25
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