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020			_z023113794X (cloth : alk. paper)
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020			_z0231510764 (e-book)
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050	1	4	_aPE1075 _b.L47 2007eb
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100	1		_aLerer, Seth, _d1955-
245	1	0	_aInventing English _h[electronic resource] : _ba portable history of the language / _cSeth Lerer.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _cc2007.
300			_aviii, 305 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xHistory.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xEtymology.
650		0	_aEnglish language _yOld English, ca. 450-1100.
650		0	_aEnglish language _yMiddle English, 1100-1500.
650		0	_aLinguistics.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
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856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10177989 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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