The Disappearing Dictionary
A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an irresistible phonetic appeal. Like a mirror image of The Meaning of Liff that just happens to be true, The Disappearing Dictionary unearths some lovely old gems of the English language from all over the British Isles, dusts them down, and makes them live agai…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5098-0176-3
- EAN: 9781509801763
- Produktnummer: 18750951
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.7 cm 188 g
- Auflage: Main Market Ed.
- Gewicht: 188
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster. He has published extensively on the history and development of English, including The Stories of English, Evolving English and Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling. He held a chair at the University of Reading for 10 years, and is now Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor. He was 'Master of Original Pronunciation' at Shakespeare's Globe in London for its productions of Romeo and Juliet and Troilus and Cressida in 2004-5, and has since acted as an accent consultant for other such productions worldwide.
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