Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English LanguageRecounts a history of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present. |
Contents
A Most Extraordinary Language | 3 |
IndoEuropean and Its Speakers | 25 |
From the Danube to the Baltic | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
aboriginal adjective African areas assimilation Baugh Black English Boontling British British English called Celtic Celts century certainly Chaucer Cockney Common Germanic Conquest consonants contributed culture Danelaw Danube Danubian dialects dictionary dozen Dutch earlier East Midland educated England English language English syntax English words English-speaking Europe European example exotic fact French glish grammar Greek Gullah hundred Indo-European inflections invented Irish jargon John king Kurganians lands language later less lingo linguistic literally literary living London meaning Middle English names Native American native tongue Norman Norse North northern noted noun Old English Old Norse original perhaps phonetic Pidjin English population pronounced reason region rhyming Roman root Scots sense Shakespeare shift slang sort sounds southern Spanish speak speakers speech spelling spoken survived syntactic things thousand tion town trade translated usage verb vowel Vulgar Latin West whence writing Zipf's Law
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Deaf Sport: The Impact of Sports Within the Deaf Community David Alan Stewart No preview available - 1991 |