The Stories of English
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'?<BR><BR>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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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'?<BR><BR>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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199 mm | 129 mm | 32 mm | 0.412 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
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0
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Verlag
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-10
0141015934
ISBN-13
9780141015934
Autor
Crystal, David
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
592
Themen
Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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Crystal, David
David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has published over 90 books and was awarded the OBE for services to the English language in 1995. He is the editor of the Penguin Encyclopedia and the New Penguin Factfinder.
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