The Stories of English EPUB
by David Crystal
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When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon'?
This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/05/2005
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- ISBN:9780141900704
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/05/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141900704