Language barrier

November 17, 1995

Antithesis never tries to perpetuate rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge universities, but Pakistan's foreign minister is not so reticent. According to Oxford Today, he was asked while being interviewed for a place at Oxford why he did not want to take up his Cambridge place. He replied that he had heard of Oxford English but never of Cambridge English.

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