New York Columbia University Press 2007 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.

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[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 023113794X, ISBN13: 9780231137942, [publisher: Columbia University Press 4/1/2007] Hardcover Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language 1.25
[Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
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[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

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[Dunfermline, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

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ISBN10: 023113794X, ISBN13: 9780231137942, [publisher: Columbia University Press 2007-04-20, New York |Chichester] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

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[cadiz, KY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

New York Columbia University Press 2007 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.

ISBN10: 023113794X, ISBN13: 9780231137942, [publisher: Columbia University Press,, New York:] Hardcover Paperback. 305pp. From the seventh century onwards. Very clean, bright and neat. Very good copy in like dust wrapper Very good copy in like dust wrapper
[Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 023113794X, ISBN13: 9780231137942, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 023113794X, ISBN13: 9780231137942, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they have to do with you? Seth Lerer's Inventing English is a masterful, engaging history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of our grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments in the larger history of English, America, and literature.Lerer begins in the seventh century with the poet Caedmon learning to sing what would become the earliest poem in English. He then looks at the medieval scribes and poets who gave shape to Middle English. He finds the traces of the Great Vowel Shift in the spelling choices of letter writers of the fifteenth century and explores the achievements of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of 1755 and The Oxford English Dictionary of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He describes the differences between English and American usage and, through the example of Mark Twain, the link between regional dialect and race, class, and gender. Finally, he muses on the ways in which contact with foreign languages, popular culture, advertising, the Internet, and e-mail ...
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[Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

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[Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

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