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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">As many of you know, the International Society for Historical Linguistics is affiliated to the Comité international permanent des linguistes (CIPL).<span style="">
</span>CIPL has recently begun to publish a Newsletter (in English), and has asked ISHL to circulate this to its members.<span style="">
</span>A Business Meeting of ISHL agreed to this request, and proposed that circulation should take place via the HistLing list, provided the list owner and CIPL had no objections.<span style="">
</span>Having obtained the approval of both parties, I am now attaching the first two issues of the Newsletter.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">I realize that some members of the HistLing list are not members of ISHL, and I ask for their forbearance.<span style="">
</span>I hope everyone will find the Newsletter of interest.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Whilst I’m writing, let me also hope that all members of ISHL and HistLing are in good health and surviving these troubled times.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">With best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">John Charles Smith</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Secretary, ISHL</span></p>
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<div class="PlainText"><span style="font-size:10pt">John Charles Smith</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt">St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt">Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt">College phone: +44 1865 271700; College Fax: +44 1865 271768</span></div>
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