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From Clerks to Corpora: essays on the English language yesterday and today

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Why is the Isle of Dogs in the Thames called Isle of Dogs? Did King Canute's men bring English usage back to Jutland? How can we find out where English speakers suck their breath in to give a short response? And what did the Brontës do about dialect and think about foreign languages? The answer...

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Main Author: Sundkvist, Peter (auth)
Other Authors: Shaw, Philip (auth), Erman, Britt (auth), Melchers, Gunnel (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Stockholm Stockholm University Press 2015
Series:Stockholm English Studies 2
Subjects:
Language
Language: history & general works
linguistics
Phonetics, phonology
Literature & literary studies
corpus linguistics
english
diachronic linguistics
J. R. R. Tolkien
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