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About the book
<p>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'?<br><br>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 lang...Show more
Book details
ISBN
9780141015934
Published year
2005
Language
English
Original title
The Stories of English
Format
Paperback
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