A history of modern colloquial English
By: by Henry Cecil Wyld ...
Edition: 3d ed., with additions.
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: English language -- History; English language -- Phonology; English language -- Pronunciation
Other titles: Colloquial English.
Notes: "This book is mainly concerned with English as it has been spoken during the last four or five centuries."--Introd., p. 1.
Table of contents: title: Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xv); 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 language from Henry VIII to James I.; title: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.; title: The history of English pronunciation in the modern period; the vowels in stressed syllables.; title: The vowels of unstressed syllables.; title: Changes in consonantal sounds.; title: Notes on inflexions.; title: Colloquial idiom.; title: Appendices.; title: Supplementary.