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Academic Insights for the Thinking World

March 2007

On the fight for English and John Humphrys

In David Crystal’s book ‘The Fight for English’, he assesses the debate over rights and wrongs in English usage. For example, which spelling is correct, ‘anemic’ or ‘anaemic’? Read on to find out! Here, Crystal weighs in on the debate between him and his contemporaries John Humphrys and Lynne Truss.

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