From Clerks to Corpora: essays on the English language yesterday and today
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 answe...
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Stockholm
Stockholm University Press
2015
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