UK elections spur linguistic innovation</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="UK elections spur linguistic innovation"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="UK,elections,spur,linguistic,innovation"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">29-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>UK elections spur linguistic innovation</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_TpzEQUu2s2SPHCcgfRI0_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (ABC): Susie Dent, the author of “The Language Report”, an annual review of English use, says military vocabulary has proved quite useful in the [current UK election] campaign. She has spotted the use of "tax bombshells" and "ground war tactics" in the rhetorical battlefield. <br>Guy Cook from the faculty of language and education at Britain's Open University says phrases such as "playing dead" are what is known as "linguistic innovation", the adaptation of language in innovative ways to create new terms. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1355800.htm " target="blank">www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1355800.htm </a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show