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Windyfoggery and Bureaucratese
Author(s): Ross Beatty ¹
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Source: ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 62, Issue 1, Jan 1983, p. 53 - 66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.62.03bea

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