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  The Stories of English (Paperback) By (author) David Crystal

  

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  Short Description for The Stories of EnglishThis 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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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 January 2006
  • Format: Paperback 592 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Historical & Comparative Linguistics | Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
  • ISBN 13: 9780141015934 ISBN 10: 0141015934
  • Sales rank: 21,937

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• 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.