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Author Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy, 1870-1945.

Title A history of modern colloquial English / by Henry Cecil Wyld.

Imprint Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1936.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Guardia  420.9 W976hm 1936    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 3d ed., with additions.
Description xviii, 433 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xv)--Remarks on phonetic notation.--Table of phonetic symbols used in this book.--Introductory.--Dialect types in Middle English and their survival in the modern period.--The English of the fifteenth century.--The English language from Henry VIII to James I.--The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.--The history of English pronunciation in the modern period; the vowels in stressed syllables.--The vowels of unstressed syllables.--Changes in consonantal sounds.--Notes on inflexions.-- Colloquial idiom.--Appendices.--Supplementary.
Subject English language -- History.
English language -- Phonology.
English language -- Pronunciation.

 
    
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