A history of modern colloquial English / by Henry Cecil Wyld
1956, Third Edition. Oxford : B. Blackwell. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall; internally very tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #447364
Second reprint of third edition, 1936. Physical description; xviii, 433 pages 23 cm. Contents; 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. Subject; English language History.
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