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This second edition of Tony Crowley's wide-ranging historical analysis and lucid account of the complex and sometimes polarised arguments driving the debate brings us up to date, and ranges from the 1830s to Conservative education policies ...
In this fifth edition the authors have added a new discussion of what Standard English really is, as well as an outline of typologies of varieties of English including ELF 'English as a lingua franca'.
... chivalry, and high culture—the last an area commemorated by Sir Walter Scott's observation in Ivanhoe that pigs, ... The metalinguistics of late Middle English culture takes on a human face in the biography of Geoffrey Chaucer.
An A to Z format for quick reference, suggestions based on current language practice, chart of levels of speech and writing geared to context, descriptive and prescriptive entries, guidelines for nonsexist usage.
Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of examining pronunciation, the most important of the practical ...
This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.
The short diphthong pronounced [tea], became [aa], and so 'fell together' or merged with OE [az]. Therefore it also became [a] in early ME, for example (not in Text 37): OE ME MnE heard hard hard scearp scharp sharp 0 OE long (ea).
Standard English in the United States and England
Over the years since first publication in 1982, International English has established its place as the only text which gives a good overview of the linguistics characteristics of varieties of English around the world.
As a rule they occur only in intervocalic position, whereas in the United States, with the exception of the southern states, the DARK (i.e., relatively harder) [1] is usually used and in England and the southern United States the ...