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Oops! Was just reading Carl Dowse’s blog (http://cd-2006.blogspot.com/2008/08/teaching-vocabulary.html) and realized that David Crystal handed over this column to Gavin Dudeney in August 2008, before I wrote this column. Aw, man, I’m not on the ball!! Oh, well: better late than never.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1720_uptodate4/index.shtml