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Sue Ostler aka Flirt Diva is metro. co.uk's relationship expert ready to tackle your tricky dating and mating problems.
Home 2009
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Probert called Ostler's death "an unfortunate accident" and said a medical examiner's report supported Porter's story.
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Sue Ostler aka Flirt Diva is metro. co.uk's new relationship expert ready to tackle your tricky dating and mating problems. here to submit your problems to the lady of lurve.
Home 2008
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Peter has an idea about what alias Ostler would use.
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In the county championship averages, with imagination filling in the gaps, names such as Ostler and Igglesden took on a quasi-mystical quality: these were the men, the heroes-in-waiting who would emerge from the shadows to put that Waugh chap in his place ( 'went 30 Tests without a century, you know.
Cricket365 2009
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Ostler observes that languages of this type belong to the modern era of exploration, colonialism, imperialism, and communism: all of these have greatly widened the territory of specific lingua francas.2 Apart from Dutch and English, the most striking of these comparatively recent “by sea” languages are daughters of Latin—the Romance languages—and particularly those of the formidable modern maritime powers: Portuguese, Spanish, and French.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Ostler observes that languages of this type belong to the modern era of exploration, colonialism, imperialism, and communism: all of these have greatly widened the territory of specific lingua francas.2 Apart from Dutch and English, the most striking of these comparatively recent “by sea” languages are daughters of Latin—the Romance languages—and particularly those of the formidable modern maritime powers: Portuguese, Spanish, and French.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The British linguist Nicholas Ostler has surveyed major lingua francas in his book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The British linguist Nicholas Ostler has surveyed major lingua francas in his book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Empires of the World: A Language History of the World Ostler, 204, 205
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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