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    French Class, 2241
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    Dan Liebert, Verbal Cartoonist: Language Limits Us
    by Dan Liebert
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    A Subtextual Reading of Your High School French Textbook
    by Sarah Smallwood
  • February 22, 2006
    Brave New Language
    by Jim Stallard
  • March 28, 2005
    Example Sentences From A Chinese-English Dictionary (Revised Edition), Beijing: Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, 1997
    by Phil Tinari
  • February 23, 2005
    Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: “One Tree Hill” by U2
    by Julie Vick
  • June 2, 2004
    Dialects of the Common Bumblebee
    by Michelle Orange
  • February 11, 2004
    Kevin Dolgin Tells You About Places You Should Go in Europe: Useful Phrases
    by Kevin Dolgin
  • November 21, 2002
    Mystifying Expressions That Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther Thought Fit To Include In Their 1949 Swedish Reference Work USA Slang, Ordbok Over Modern Amerikansk Slang
    by Ethan Hein
  • September 16, 2002
    Actual Entries from the Scots Dialect Dictionary
    by John McMurtrie
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