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June 1982 Issue [Books]

The word police

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Slugging it out with the language pundits
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Book reviews Charlton Grant Laird Don Ethan Miller Jeremy Bernstein Jim Quinn Lexicography Maxwell W. Nurnberg Willard R. Espy William Safire

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