Author: DAVID CRYSTAL
Title: The stories of English
Description: 2005. Paperback. Pp: 584. 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 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. ISBN: 9780141015934. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780141015934
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Title: The stories of English
Description: 2005. Paperback. Pp: 584. 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 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. ISBN: 9780141015934. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780141015934
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 346037
- Book number: 346037
See more books from our catalog: Sociologie