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Year:
1979
Short description:
The Plain English Campaign founded
Medium description:
"marked by a ritual shredding of government forms in Parliament Square" (Crystal)
Tags:
history of English
in Britain
Plain English Campaign (1991). The Plain English Story 2nd Edition. Stockport: Plain English Campaign [p.9]
Crystal, David (1988). The English Language. London: Penguin [p.266]
Piercy, Joseph (2012). The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language. London: Michael O'Mara Books Limited [p.107]