English is an Asian language. That may sound strange at first, but the facts are clear. English has been used in various parts of Asia for almost two hundred years. It is the first language of two countries in Asia (Australia and New Zealand), the...
SIR: You'd have to be a bit of a dill to take seriously Alex Buzo's claim (January-February 2002) that there is a universal denial, not only of regional variation in Australian English, but also of the existence of New Zealand English. Most have long...
My friends were named Jim, Yannackers (a derivative of Yiannis), Kon, Bill, Luigi and Spiro. We were all wogs, but that was hardly relevant in a school where most students came from ethnic backgrounds ... I rarely see my school friends nowadays, although an...
