EBC Webstore
Eastern Book Company
|
|
![]() |
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 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.
|
||
|
||
|