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A history of modern colloquial English / Henry Cecil Wyld.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 1936[ Reprinted 1953]Edition: 3d edDescription: xviii, 433 p. ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 420.9 WHI 1953
Contents:
Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xv)--Remarks on phonetic notation.--Table of phonetic symbols used in this book.--Introductory.--Dialect types in Middle English and their survival in the modern period.--The English of the fifteenth century.--The English language from Henry VIII to James I.--The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.--The history of English pronunciation in the modern period; the vowels in stressed syllables.--The vowels of unstressed syllables.--Changes in consonantal sounds.--Notes on inflexions.--Colloquial idiom.--Appendices.--Supplementary.
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Books Central Library, University of Rajshahi Reading Room Non-fiction 420.9 WHI 1953 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-1 Not For Loan GBP 9010
Books Central Library, University of Rajshahi Non-fiction 420.9 WHI 1953 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-2 Available Sheeling 9067

"This book is mainly concerned with English as it has been spoken during the last four or five centuries."--Introd., p. 1.

Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xv)--Remarks on phonetic notation.--Table of phonetic symbols used in this book.--Introductory.--Dialect types in Middle English and their survival in the modern period.--The English of the fifteenth century.--The English language from Henry VIII to James I.--The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.--The history of English pronunciation in the modern period; the vowels in stressed syllables.--The vowels of unstressed syllables.--Changes in consonantal sounds.--Notes on inflexions.--Colloquial idiom.--Appendices.--Supplementary.

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