Stories of English
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0141015934
ISBN 13
9780141015934
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
592
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
