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Author McKnight, G. H. (George Harley), 1871-1951

Title The evolution of the English language : from Chaucer to the twentieth century / by George H. McKnight with the assistance of Bert Emsley
Published New York : Dover Publications, [1968]
New York : Dover Publications, 1968
©1928
[©1956]

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Description xii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Chaos -- The firste fyndere of our faire langage -- Chaucer's successors and the aureate language -- Caxton and the printing press -- Transition from middle English to modern English -- Humanism -- Purism -- Sixteenth-century rhetoric -- Shakespeare and rhetoric -- Shakespeare and the language of his time -- Classicism and the schoolmaster -- The restoration period -- The Augustan age -- Johnson's dictionary -- Eighteenth-century grammarians -- English purists and scotch rhetoricians -- The art of pointing, or punctuation -- Fixing the pronunciation -- Beginning of American English -- The nineteenth century -- Revolt -- Modern spelling and pronunciation
Notes "Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published ... in 1928 under the title Modern English in the making."
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes
Subject English language -- Grammar, Historical.
English language -- History.
Author Emsley, Bert, 1889- author
LC no. 68017396
Other Titles Modern English in the making