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Article: Language in the British Isles. David Britain, editor. Cambridge University Press.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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Language in the British Isles. David Britain, editor. Cambridge University Press. 50.00. xiii+508 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-79488-6. This collection of twenty-five essays is in effect a replacement of Peter Trudgill's Language in the British Isles first published in 1984. This new collection takes into account the continuing immigration into the UK, now from eastern Europe as earlier from the old Empire. For better or for worse this massive influx is affecting the language. The first part has ten essays looking at 'English'--its history, the standard v. non-standard debates, phonetic and grammatical variations, and subdivisions, e.g. ...
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