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Scaring crows in English

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Jean-Marc Gachelin
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Abstract

One never quite knows what will catch on with ET readers and what will pass unremarked. Certainly, Louise Sylvester's piece ‘Unusual and dialect terms for scarecrows’ in ET42 (Apr 95) has prompted a remarkable – and painstakingly detailed – response, in the two replies that follow.

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English Today , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1996, pp. 50 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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