A History Of Modern Colloquial English.
£15.00
Publisher
Basil Blackwell.
Place
Oxford
Date
1956
Synopsis
Third edition, with additions.
Item Description
8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. xviii + 433 pp. Bound in original pale blue cloth, gilt, in price clipped dust wrapper, which has neat repairs at head and tail of spine; otherwise a very good clean copy. A history of English pronunciation from the early fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth and is essentially a study of the language as spoken. A very detailed study with numerous examples by the lexicographer and philologist, Henry Cecil Wyld (1870-1945), Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, from 1920. The first edition was published in 1918 and this is a reprint of the third edition of 1936.
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