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    Title/Author: Inventing English/ Seth Lerer.
    Reminder of title: a portable history of the language /
    Author: Lerer, Seth,
    Published: New York :Columbia University Press, : c2007.,
    Description: viii, 305 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: 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.
    Subject: English language - Etymology. -
    Online resource: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=198797An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    ISBN: 0231510764 (electronic bk.)
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