Title: The many hues of English /
Authors: Pei, Mario,
Date: 1967
Publisher: Knopf,
Physical description: viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: The varieties of English. The two mainstreams ; The rivulets ; Your language says more than you think ; Pidgin English around the world -- The flux of English. Have we too many words? ; Changing times--changing words ; Shall we bring English up to date? ; A standard for English ; The problem of spelling reform -- Usage and the dictionary. Leave your language alone ; Chamber of horrors ; Usage and abusage ; But what of American usage? ; That dictionary ; The dictionary as a battlefront ; A loss for words -- What we do to others. G.I. English : not for export ; What we have done to one language ; But what have we done for them lately? -- A glimpse into the future. The international language and English ; One world? One language? ; The hidden politics of words ; What TV is doing to language ; English in 2067 : a forecast ; 2075 : a flight of the imagination.
Subject headings (LCSH): English language.