Introducing English Linguistics

loving families
.
(Letter to the Editor, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 17, 2007)
“America’s honorable soldiers and their families, and the security of
our country, must not be jeopardized based on the false and unachiev-
able hopes that if we stay just a little bit longer everything will work
itself out in Iraq. The evidence is clear that that is not the case,”
[Representative George] Miller said.
(San Francisco Chronicle, November 29, 2006, p. A1)
The social context of English
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In fact, praising the soldiers in Iraq is so important that then-Senator
Barack Obama (Democrat, Illinois) was forced to apologize for making the
statement below during a speech:
We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the