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Inventing English : a portable history of the language / Seth Lerer.

by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

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New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

English language -- History.

English language -- Etymology.

English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.

English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006030652.html

023113794X (cloth : alk. paper)

9780231137942 (cloth : alk. paper)

0231510764 (e-book)

9780231510769 (e-book)

viii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.

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