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'?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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-190070-4
- EAN: 9780141900704
- Produktnummer: 17831063
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'597 KB
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David Crystal
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