Joan Beal, Director, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, UK

English in Modern Times is a welcome and praiseworthy addition to existing scholarship on the history of English. English Language and Linguistics"It can be read with great profit." Anglistik, Vol 18.1

• 1 Modern English and Modern Times2 The Vocabulary of Later Modern English3 Recording and Regulating the Lexicon: Dictionaries from Dr Johnson to the Oxford English Dictionary4 Syntactic Change in Later Modern English5 Grammars and Grammarians6 Phonological Change in Later Modern English7 Defining the Standard of Pronunciation: Pronouncing Dictionaries and the Rise of RP8 Beyond Standard English: Varieties of English in the Later Modern PeriodReferenceIndex

Joan Beal, Director, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, UK

English in Modern Times is a welcome and praiseworthy addition to existing scholarship on the history of English. English Language and Linguistics"It can be read with great profit." Anglistik, Vol 18.1

• 1 Modern English and Modern Times2 The Vocabulary of Later Modern English3 Recording and Regulating the Lexicon: Dictionaries from Dr Johnson to the Oxford English Dictionary4 Syntactic Change in Later Modern English5 Grammars and Grammarians6 Phonological Change in Later Modern English7 Defining the Standard of Pronunciation: Pronouncing Dictionaries and the Rise of RP8 Beyond Standard English: Varieties of English in the Later Modern PeriodReferenceIndex

Joan Beal, Director, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, UK

English in Modern Times is a welcome and praiseworthy addition to existing scholarship on the history of English. English Language and Linguistics"It can be read with great profit." Anglistik, Vol 18.1

• 1 Modern English and Modern Times2 The Vocabulary of Later Modern English3 Recording and Regulating the Lexicon: Dictionaries from Dr Johnson to the Oxford English Dictionary4 Syntactic Change in Later Modern English5 Grammars and Grammarians6 Phonological Change in Later Modern English7 Defining the Standard of Pronunciation: Pronouncing Dictionaries and the Rise of RP8 Beyond Standard English: Varieties of English in the Later Modern PeriodReferenceIndex