The adventure of English : the biography of a language / Melvyn Bragg

Author: Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-
Published: New York : Arcade Pub., 2004.
New York : Distributed by Time Warner Book Group.
Edition: First U.S. ed.
Physical Description: xii, 322 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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Contents

The common tongue -- The great escape -- Conquest -- Holding on -- The speech of kings -- Chaucer -- God's english -- English and the language of the state -- William Tyndale's bible -- A renaissance of words -- Preparing the ground -- Shakespeare's english -- "My America" -- Wild west words -- Sold down the river -- Mastering the language -- The proper way to talk -- Steam, streets and slang -- Indian takeover -- The West Indies -- Advance Australia -- Warts and all -- All over the world -- And now ...?

Subject(s)

English language—History

ISBN

1559707100

Note

Originally published: U.K. : Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-312) and index.

Source of Acquisition

Schuylkill copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20045.

Endowment Note

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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