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The Prodigal Tongue
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The Love-Hate Relationship Between British and American English
'The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is also a funny and rollicking read.' - The Economist, Books of the Year
Only an American would call autumn fall or refer to a perfectly good pavement as a sidewalk... Not so, says Lynne Murphy.
The English invented sidewalk in the seventeenth century and in 1693 John Dryden wrote the line, 'Or how last fall he raised the weekly bills.' Perhaps we don't know our own language quite as well as we thought. Murphy, an American linguist in Britain, dissects the myths surrounding British and American English in a laugh-out-loud exploration of how language works and where it's going.
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'The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is also a funny and rollicking read.' - The Economist, Books of the Year
Only an American would call autumn fall or refer to a perfectly good pavement as a sidewalk... Not so, says Lynne Murphy.
The English invented sidewalk in the seventeenth century and in 1693 John Dryden wrote the line, 'Or how last fall he raised the weekly bills.' Perhaps we don't know our own language quite as well as we thought. Murphy, an American linguist in Britain, dissects the myths surrounding British and American English in a laugh-out-loud exploration of how language works and where it's going.
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Oneworld Publications
Bloomsbury Street 10
WC1B 3SR London
info@oneworld-publications.com
44 (0) 207 307 8900
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Data wydania: 07.03.2019
Liczba stron: 368
Wymiary: 12.9x19.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Oneworld Publications
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Tytuł:The Prodigal Tongue
EAN: 9781786074973
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