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When we read the original version of Shakespeare's work we realize how much the language has changed. But is it changing now? Sure.

That's what James Banner from Hilderstone College, Kent, England explains to us in the featured article of this issue. He analyses some of the changes Contemporary English is going through.

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James Banner (MA, Dip TEFL) is Director of Marketing and of External Courses at Hilderstone College, Broadstairs, UK. He directed the Cambridge/RSA DipTFLA programme which Hilderstone College piloted in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh and a Certificate programme in ELT with Kent Adult Education and the University of Kent. He has taught and lectured for schools, universities and the British Council in Brazil, Turkey, Dubai, South Africa, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Argentina, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Switzerland.

Has anybody noticed a decrease in the use of the definite article - especially in professional/academic-related language, both spoken and written?

In 2005 papers in the UK reported the shock of the international community that President Bush should have appointed John Bolton as the U.S ambassador to the United Nations. Why?

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