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| #225320 in Books | Overlook | 2005-09-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x1.40 x5.50l,1.13 | File type: PDF | 592 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| For Fans of English|By Joe Leach|What happened to the old English letters ash, eth, thorn, wynn and yogh? How did the Vikings in the Dane Law affect the language? When is “ye” not “ye.”? How did “doeth” become “does?” Why doesn’t Standard English have a pronoun for the second person plural? Why didn’t French elimina|From Publishers Weekly|Leading British linguist Crystal (Shakespeare's Words) immediately distinguishes his pluralistic study of English's evolution from the standard, narrowly focused histories by describing not only how it evolved on an isolated island
The groundbreaking history of the English language, fusing chronological with anecdotal and etymological accounts of individual word-histories, to create not one story, but many stories.
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,...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Stories of English | David Crystal. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
