The Stories of English
Book formats
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Paperback 2 383руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- David Crystal
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- english
- Release date
- May 5, 2005
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-101593-4
- GTIN
- 9780141015934
- Weight, g
- 404
About
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.