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Language Problems and Language Planning
Vol. 31:1 (2007) ► pp.67–70
Book review

Edwin L. Battistella. Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 230 pp.

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Published online: 27 February 2007
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