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Roger Cooper, Sunday Telegraph “It has offered to a current
generation of students the possibility that the study of language
might be exciting, as it was to Dr. Johnson. In short, I think it’s
brilliant.”
Professor B A Harris, University of Dublin “I spend my working life
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masterpiece. On New Scientist it is also a bible; we take all our
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managed to take advances in science in its stride.”
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