When and why did „thou” disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said „observation” or „hobservation”? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote „Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon”?
This superbly well-informed – and also wonderfully entertaining – history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today.
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