A history of modern colloquial English
By: by Henry Cecil Wyld ...
Publisher: T.F. Unwin ltd.
Published: 1925
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: English language -- History; English language -- Phonology; English language -- Pronunciation
Other titles: Colloquial English.
Notes: "First published 1920, second edition 1921, third impression 1925."
"This book is mainly concerned with English as it has been spoken during the past four or five centuries."--Introd., p. 1.
Table of contents: title: Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xiii).; title: Remarks on phonetic notation.; title: Table of phonetic symbols used in this book.; title: Introductory.; title: Dialect types in Middle English and their survival in the modern period.; title: The English of the fifteenth century.; title: The English of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth.; title: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.; title: The history of English pronunciation in the modern period; the vowels of accentuated syllables.; title: The vowels of unstressed syllables.; title: Changes in consonantal sounds.; title: Notes on inflexions.; title: Colloquial idiom.