To LIKEN so spare a frame as Basic English to Falstaff may seem odd. But they have points in common. “Men of all sorts,” he says’, “take a pride to gird at me. ... I am not only witty in myself, but ...

Himself the son of an English father and an American mother, and a supreme master of our common tongue, he did not see why we should not try to spread the use of our language even more widely over the ...

MR. CHURCHILL announced in the House of Commons on March 9 that the Committee of Ministers on Basic English has submitted a report which has been approved in principle by the Government. So far as ...