This is a Doctoral Thesis written by Andreea S. Calude from University of Auckland, Australia in 2007.

The Elements of International English Style: A Guide to Writing English Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents, and Internet Pages for a Global Audience.
Telling some global associates you will arrive at the airport on 5/6 will result in your getting there on the sixth of May but their coming to pick you up on the fifth of June. And imagine the financial hilarity when your accounting department discovers a British billion is a thousand times larger than an American billion. Academic and consultant Weiss gives all the details on International English, which is designed to be culture-free and also culture-fair. He gives the principles of communicating simply, clearly, and without burdens, and offers advice on cultural adaptation. Weiss includes a number of examples and exercises and a portfolio of bad news letters. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book addresses a central problem in phraseological and linguistic analysis. The creative structure and the creative use of idioms. Let me therefore start creatively, with a highly speculative metaphorical hypothesis: idioms are to linguists and language users what the Cheshire cat is to Alice. Idioms are peculiar linguistic constructions that have raised many eyebrows in linguistics and often confuse newcomers to a language. Indeed, the expression grin like a Cheshire cat is an idiom. More precisely, it is an idiomatic comparison whose motivation has become opaque: as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) indicates, the phrase is of undetermined origin.

This volume is a compilation of articles by international scholars active in the field of English historical linguistics. The majority of the studies are revised versions of papers presented at a workshop on “Clausal Connectives in the History of English” at the 13th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL) in Vienna on the 23–28 August 2004.