Wordsmiths and warriors : the English-language tourist's guide to Britain / David Crystal, Hilary Crystal.

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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Arrival; 2 The earliest known English word; 3 The first recorded English sentence; 4 Bede and the origins of English; 5 Glossaries and translations; 6 The finest runic inscription; 7 King Alfred and the birth of English; 8 The ultimate warrior wordsmith; 9 The first standard English; 10 Ælfric and the first English conversation; 11 Wulfstan and Old English style; 12 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; 13 The French connection; 14 Orrm and English spelling; 15 Layamon's English Chronicle; 16 Higden, Trevisa, and the rise of English; 17 The English language in Wales.

18 Little England beyond Wales19 The birth of Scots English; 20 Chaucer and Middle English; 21 From ancient to modern; 22 Chancery and standard English; 23 Caxton and printing English; 24 Juliana Berners and collective nouns; 25 A family of letters; 26 John Wycliffe and Bible translation; 27 William Tyndale and the English Bible; 28 William Bullokar and the first English grammar; 29 Richard Mulcaster and the status of English; 30 Shakespeare and English idiom; 31 Shakespeare and linguistic innovation; 32 Robert Cawdrey and the first dictionary; 33 John Smith and new Englishes.

34 The East India Company and global English35 King James and his Bible; 36 John Ray and English proverbs; 37 John Dryden and an English Academy; 38 The Royal Society and scientific English; 39 Tim Bobbin and local dialect; 40 Johnson and the dictionary; 41 John Walker and pronunciation; 42 Lindley Murray and English grammar; 43 Robert Burns and Scots; 44 The Chambers brothers and encyclopedic English; 45 William Wordsworth and poetic language; 46 Roget and the thesaurus; 47 Isaac Pitman and English shorthand; 48 James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary.

49 William Barnes and speech-craft50 Thomas Hardy and Wessex dialect; 51 Joseph Wright and English dialects; 52 Henry Fowler and English usage; 53 George Bernard Shaw and spelling reform; 54 Dylan Thomas and Welsh English; 55 The Empire Windrush and new dialects; 56 Daniel Jones and English phonetics; 57 The Survey of English Usage; Regional Grouping.

Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character. The book relates a real journey. David and Hilary Crystal drove thousands of miles to produce this fascinating combination of English-language history and travelogue, from locations in south-east Kent to the Scottish lowlands, and from south-west Wales to the East Anglian coast. David provides the descriptions and linguistic associations, Hilary the.

Includes indexes.

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