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We Are Not Amused

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

We Are Not Amused

By David Crystal

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About the book

Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our Victorian predecessors thought about the subject, as revealed in the pages of the satirical magazine, Punch.In the sixty years between its first issue in 1841 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1...Show more

Language: history and general works

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ISBN

9781851244782

Publisher

Bodleian Library

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

We Are Not Amused

Format

Hardcover

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