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Author Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-

Title The adventure of English : the biography of a language / Melvyn Bragg.

Imprint New York : Arcade Pub., 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  420.9 B73a 2004    ---  Available
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description xii, 322 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-312) and index.
Contents The common tongue -- The great escape -- Conquest -- Holding on -- The speech of kings -- Chaucer -- God's english -- English and the language of the state -- William Tyndale's bible -- A renaissance of words -- Preparing the ground -- Shakespeare's english -- "My America" -- Wild west words -- Sold down the river -- Mastering the language -- The proper way to talk -- Steam, streets and slang -- Indian takeover -- The West Indies -- Advance Australia -- Warts and all -- All over the world -- And now ...?
Subject English language -- History.
ISBN 1559707100

 
    
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