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The History of English
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Scott Shay |
The History of English: A Linguistic Introduction is for anyone interested in the history of the English language. While leading the reader through the pre-history of English, through Germanic times,… |
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Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics
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Peter Trudgill |
"In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also caused different r… |
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Analysing older English
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David Denison |
"Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete… |
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Speaking American
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Richard W. Bailey |
When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our languag… |
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The story of English
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Joseph Piercy |
This book tells the story of how the English language has developed over the last 15 centuries. Illustrating the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what … |
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May I quote you on that?
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Stephen Spector |
"A guide to English grammar and usage for the twenty-first century, pairing grammar rules with interesting and humorous quotations from American popular culture"-- |
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The word detective
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J. A. Simpson |
"What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to al… |
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Rules of Use
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Julian Lamb |
"We take it for granted that we can use words properly - appropriately, meaningfully, even decorously. And yet it is very difficult to justify or explain what makes a particular use "proper." Given t… |
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What is English?
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Tim William Machan |
1 volume ; 24 cm |
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Madhouse of Language
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Allan Ingram |
In The Madhouse of Language, the history of writing about madness is seen in terms of a suppression of mad language by an increasingly confident medical profession, in which orthodox attitudes toward… |
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Words of science, and the history behind them
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Isaac Asimov |
Scientific terminology arranged in dictionary form with a full page discussion of the history, root, and meaning of each word. |
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213 valentines
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Barbara Cohen |
Wade has trouble adjusting when he is transferred to a special fourth grade class for the gifted and talented, so he plans to send himself 213 valentines signed by celebrities. |
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The donkey's story
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Barbara Cohen |
A somewhat humorous retelling, featuring Balaam's donkey, of the Bible story in which Balak, king of Moab, calls upon Balaam, the prophet, to curse the Israelites, but he blesses them instead. |
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