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Is the English connective 'or' best modelled by inclusive or exclusive disjunction? We know from our everyday experiences that natural language is plagued by ambiguities and a lack of clarity. Often these can be a source of humour - c.f. the age old gag, 'My dog used to chase an old man on a bicycle. How did you stop him? I took his bike away.' and many would argue that our languages are enriched by the presence of such idiosyncrasies. However, to linguists attempting to implement a model of language and lay down concrete laws, such anomalies present sizeable problems. Consider attempting to model the English language connectives 'and' and 'or' with their logical operator counterparts and we see just such a situation arising. As we shall see in this essay with the examination of one such connective, the English disjunction 'or', it is perhaps sometimes the case that a rigorous...

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