ROBERT ILSON takes up the issue of possible missing indefinite articles in phrases such as ‘He's nice man’, raised by Tom McArthur in ‘Is it new way of speaking?’ (Comment, ET40, Oct 94)

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American, usages

A consideration of the mixed usage that has arisen in this West African country between English and the indigenous languages

Changing emphases in the use of English and Chinese in the recruitment of business managers in a British colony soon to be reintegrated into China

A description and discussion of the routine mixing of Arabic and English in lectures at Jordan University of Science and Technology

There are some subtle influences from English at work on other languages, graphically demonstrated by this account of how mainly American movies and TV programmes are dubbed into Italian

JOHN D. BATTENBURG of California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly) discusses tensions currently inherent in university departments of “English”, especially in the United States

MICHAEL DANIEL AMBATCHEW reports on uses of, and attitudes to, English in the Horn of Africa.

Following on from Virginia Pulcini's article on English in Italy (ET40, Oct 94), an account of English in Switzerland

An examination of the massive growth of English expressions in Dutch and the emergence of a ‘Dutchlish’ hybrid

The following is the text of the editorial of The Sunday Times (London), 10 Jul 94, reprinted in full without additions or deletions with the permission of Times Newspapers Limited.

THE ARTICLE ‘Singlish’, in which Duncan Forbes describes the background and nature of the English spoken by Singapore Chinese students, interested me greatly, not only because I always read with great pleasure the reports and discussions on world Englishes, but also because I myself am a Chinese English teacher and teach English in China.

JEAN-MARC GACHELIN reflects on implications in articles by a Scot and a fellow Frenchman: Tom McArthur's ‘Models of English’ (ET32, Oct 92) and François Chevillet's reply to it, ‘English or Englishes?’ (ET36, Oct 93)

A plain-language campaigner takes on the traditional linguistic apparatus of government and legislation in Britain

A rare glimpse into a problem in the world of medical lexicography, focusing on the eponyms diverticulum of Kommerell and Gerbode defect