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Our marvelous native tongue : the life and times of the English language / Robert Claiborne.
LIBRA - Special PE1075 .C47 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Claiborne, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--History.
- English language.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 339 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Times Books, [1983]
- Summary:
- Recounts a history of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present.
- Contents:
- The importance of speaking English: a most extraordinary language
- The common source: Indo-European and its speakers
- The first conquest: from the Danube to the Baltic
- The second conquest: from West Germanic to Old English
- The third conquest: English and French
- The first flowering: Chaucer, Caxton and "good English"
- "The verie height": Shakespeare and the King James Bible
- A search for order: trying to make English behave
- Only in America: English leaps the Atlantic
- Our infinite variety: modern variations on an old theme
- Not everybody's English: some remarkable vocabularies
- From here on in: English today and tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322).
- Includes indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Claiborne, Robert. Our marvelous native tongue.
- ISBN:
- 0812910389
- 9780812910384
- 0812916352
- 9780812916355
- OCLC:
- 9280461
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