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Speaking American
A History of English in the United States
Häftad, 2015
392 kr
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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard …
Speaking American
A History of English in the United States
E-bok, 2012
275 kr
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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America''s democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard …
Speaking American
A History of English in the United States
E-bok, 2012
275 kr
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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America''s democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard …
Nineteenth-Century English
Häftad, 1998
458 kr
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Jane Austen's English is far different from Virginia Woolf's, but historians of the English language have given scant attention to the ways in which English changed over the course of the nineteenth century. In Nineteenth-Century English, Richard W. Bailey treads new ground by showing the extent to …
Images of English
A Cultural History of the Language
Häftad, 2009
770 kr
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Images of English was the first book to focus exclusively on opinions about the language as they have evolved through time. Through the use of abundant quotations, Richard Bailey lets voices from the past speak to our present assumptions and challenges the notion of English triumphalism throughout …
Pick Iii
Everybody’S Game
E-bok, 2011
127 kr
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This book is about the art of playing pick 111, a game that has been introduced in many states. The book also touches on a system that will be forth coming called the master workout which will show you in advance which numbers to play. The main focus of this book is to inform you that if pick 111 …
Dictionaries of English
Prospects for the Record of Our Language
Inbunden, 1987
592 kr
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Essays by eminent lexicographers explore challenges facing professionals who seek to use both existing traditions and new technologies
Rogue Scholar
The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff
Inbunden, 2003
609 kr
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This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed life of the notorious nineteenth-century thief, murderer, professional impostor, and would-be philologist Edward Rulloff, who was condemned to die and hanged for his crimes. The life of Rulloff is a sordid account of misguided genius and …
