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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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basic English
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A proposed international language devised in the 1920s by two Cambridge dons, C.K. Ogden (1889–1957) and I.A. Richards (1893–1979). It consisted of 850 English words with a simplified grammar to make them serve 'for all the purposes of everyday language'. First explained in Ogden's Basic English (1930), the system was for a while widely followed. The title was an early but awkward acronym, standing for British American Scientific International Commercial English.
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