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Shvanyukova, Polina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This article is concerned with the history of "yours sincerely," a popular closing formula in English epistolary discourse. The formula was already used sporadically in the seventeenth century, gradually increased in frequency in the Late Modern period, and was the preferred subscription in English business correspondence by the end of…
Descriptors: Business English, History, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence)
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Winther, A. – Langue Francaise, 1972
Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)
Descriptors: Dictionaries, French, Grammar, Guides
Bagari, Dauda M.; And Others – 1976
The text consists of 22 lessons and is intended as a supplementary text for intermediate and advanced Hausa students. All but three of the lessons contain a reading selection, a set of discussion questions, a list of idioms from the reading along with other expressions that are semantically or syntactically related, exercises to test for mastery…
Descriptors: Chad Languages, Grammar, Guides, Hausa