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Example sentences for: periodicals
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Most of the 130-odd sources are, quite naturally, UK in origin and persuasion, with a fair sprinkling of US periodicals; others looked at include Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Turkey, Hong Kong, and France (for The International Herald Tribune ). Ayto writes well, and his Introduction (actually, to get fussy about it, Foreword or Preface) sets forth clearly the aims and purposes of this collection of neologisms.
They are scattered around the country and mostly deliver unaddressed "saturation" advertisements and small quantities of periodicals and small parcels.
In the early 1960s I wrote an article [WORD, XXVI (1966), Nos. 1-3, an offprint of which I shall be happy to send to those requesting it] in which I suggested that relatively accurate statistics on word frequencies could best be attained by factoring in the circulation and listenership figures of periodicals and radio/TV media used as sources of data about the words and phrases under investigation.
It also includes some mail that might be viewed as community newspapers or shoppers and some that could be viewed as Periodicals.
Moreover, there are omissions that are criticizable even from the British user's point of view; for instance, abbreviations of some important American scholarly societies and periodicals, likely to be needed by scholars in the UK, are missing: MLA is in for `Modern Language Association,' but not LSA for `Linguistic Society of America'; PMLA , for `Publication(s) of the Modern Language Association,' known throughout the world, is missing as is AS for `American Speech.
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