A history of modern colloquial English - Wyld, Henry Cecil, 1870-1945. (Oxford : Blackwell, 1936)
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.
"This book is mainly concerned with English as it has been spoken during the last four or five centuries."--Introd., p. 1.
Keywords: English language -- History; English language -- Phonology; English language -- Pronunciation