An edition of A history of modern colloquial English
(1920)
A history of modern colloquial English
[2d ed.]
by Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld
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Table of Contents
Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xiii)
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 of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The history of English pronunciation in the modern period; the vowels of accentuated sylables.
The vowels of unstressed syllables.
Change in consonantal sounds.
Notes on inflexions.
Colloquial idiom.
Edition Notes
"This book is mainly concerned with English as it has been spoken during the last four or five centuries."--Introd., p. 1.
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