Hexagonal'' refers to the new vocabulary and idioms that continue to infiltrate Spanish, French, and other languages. (SK)

Paper presented at the 7th International Congress of Slavists, Warsaw, Poland, August 1973. (RL)

Discusses Polish influences in East Slavonic and presents results of personal research into the vocabulary of pre-Petrine Russian sources with comments on Ukrainian and Byelorussian as intermediaries in the transmission of Latin words via Polish to Russian; paper presented at the 7th International Congress of Slavists, Warsaw, Poland, August 1973.…

This study reveals that pupil's writing in secondary schools is viewed predominantly by teachers as a means of gaining feedback and is only rarely seen as a means whereby a child can organize thoughts and feelings. (Author)

Recognition of the American Indian language and its contributions to the English language are presented. For example, skunk, raccoon, moose, Chicago, and moccasin are all Indian words. (FF)

Three experiments are described which were designed to explore the usefulness of the three principles of abbreviation and to examine the effects of certain stimulus variables. (Authors/CB)

In this article the author examines the language of advertising and the uses to which a teacher can put it. (Author/RK)

Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)

Drinan cites examples from government publications to show deliberate misuse of language, and calls on the English profession to re-establish clarity and honesty''. (SP)

Special issued devoted to language and history. (VM)

Paper presented at the 1971 Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Buffalo, New York. Assesses an analysis made by Charles Fillmore on the grammar of the English verbs hit'' and break''. (VM)