Wyld, Henry Cecil,  1870-1945. <br/><br/>
A history of modern colloquial English / 
Henry Cecil Wyld. 
 - 3d ed.  
 - Oxford :  Blackwell,  1936[ Reprinted 1953] 
 - xviii, 433 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> "This book is mainly concerned with English as it has been spoken during the last four or five centuries."--Introd., p. 1. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--History.<br/>English language--Phonology.<br/>English language--Pronunciation.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>420.9  / WHI 1953