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Title: The Stories of English
Condition: New
Author: David Crystal
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0141015934
EAN: 9780141015934
ISBN: 9780141015934
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Genre: Language & Reference
Release Date: 05/05/2005
Description:

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.

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