The Stories Of English

Author: David Crystal

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Price : $26.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780141015934
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.405
Publication date : 01 May 2005
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 25mm
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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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Shortlisted for British Academy Book Prize 2005.

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