The poet Tony Harrison has come up here before (and I am sad to learn from
that Wikipedia article that he died last year); all poets deal in language,
of c...
September 13, 2005
Sri Lankan English
The September 2005 issue of the OED Newsletter contains an article by Richard Boyle, one of the OED's consultants, which looks at the history of Sri Lankan English. A useful overview of the subject from the author of Knox's Words, a study of words of Sri Lankan origin recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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