Paradigms lost, reflections on literacy and its decline (edition 1980)

by John Ivan Simon

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Title:	Paradigms lost, reflections on literacy and its decline
Authors:	John Ivan Simon
Info:	New York : C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, c1980.
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Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline by John Simon

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In the world of words, this is one of my all time favorite books. As a vocabulary builder alone, it contributed over 60 words in its short 220+ pages. And as I recall, English is not Simon's first language! (

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