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                    [ArticleID] => 940998
                    [Title] => Romancing the King’s language
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Our country boasts of being a predominantly English-speaking nation but, truth be told, a good number of Filipinos would not readily profess proficiency in the King’s language. One grapples with the appropriate preposition to use, the right subject-verb agreement or even the spelling of a commonly misspelled word.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500008 [AuthorName] => Marivic C. Faicol [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 681255 [Title] => Mastering English for lawyers, professionals [Summary] =>

The Center for Global Best Practices will be conducting a seminar entitled “Mastering English: For Law Students and Bar Examinees” on May 24 and 25 at the Pearl Manila Hotel.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 623536 [Title] => Editing as a profession (Part two) [Summary] =>

Let me acknowledge, first of all, the messages I received from people who, as it turns out, do the same thing I do: edit documents and manuscripts for a living.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7936/lif1thumb.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 487888 [Title] => Relearning the architecture of English [Summary] =>

Language lovers of my generation might recall a popular mini-column that was a regular feature in the old days — by which I mean the ’50s and ’60s — in The Manila Times, if memory serves me right.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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