The Stories of English

Crystal David
The Stories of English



Издательство: Penguin Group
Жанр: Penguin Group

Качество: Хорошее
Страниц: 592
Формат: pdf, fb2, epub

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.