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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the English language, focusing on the factors that have led to the many differences between spoken and written English around the world and placing the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary in the context of the larger history of English, America, and literature.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age, spoken or written in by over a quarter of the human race. But how did it evolve? How did a language spoken originally by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by more than 1,500 million? What developments can be seen as we move from Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dickens and the present day? A host of fascinating questions are answered in The Stories of...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Provides a look at the variety of American English, discussing the origins and history of our words and the changing cultural conditions that produced them; divided into such topics as Americanisims, cyberspace, advertising, crime, food, and generation gap.
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