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As for completeness, writing systems are a bit off my beaten track, and I dare not offer an opinion; as for authority, while Peter T. Daniels' name is not familiar to me, the work of William Bright, Professor Emeritus of linguistics at UCLA and erstwhile editor (for twenty-two years) of Language , the journal of the Linguistics Society of America, is well known to me, chiefly in his latter capacity.
A potentially significant conflict is opening up between Michael Isikoff, the Newsweek reporter who's been a driving force in the Flytrap scandal, and Julie Steele, the erstwhile friend of Kathleen Willey who says Willey told her to lie to Isikoff.
Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.
The section Adaptations of Arabic Script was prepared by Alan S. Kaye (California State University, Fullerton), erstwhile contributor to VERBATIM; Bernard Comrie (Cambridge University) and our friend Eric P. Hamp (University of Chicago) contributed the subsection on Welsh, in Part X.
It is also true that its erstwhile rival has collapsed rather utterly.