The Stories of English
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 592
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780141015934
- Utgivelsesår: 2005
- Bidragsyter: Crystal, David
229,-
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.