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Stories of English [EPUB ebook]

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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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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780141900704 ● Maison d’édition Penguin Books Ltd ● Publié 2005 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2268025 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM

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