The Stories of English
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780141015934
Брэнд
Penguin
Автор
David Crystal
Издатель
Penguin Books Ltd.
Вес
410 гр
Страниц
592
Год выпуска
2005
Форма выпуска
130x195
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.