| ISBN |
9780199668120 (hbk.) |
| 0199668124 (hbk.) |
| Name |
Crystal, David, 1941- author. |
| Title |
Wordsmiths & warriors : the English-language tourist's guide to Britain / David Crystal, Hilary Crystal. |
| Published |
Oxford Oxford University Press, 2013. |
| Description |
vii, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Notes |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Pegwell Bay: arrival -- 2. Caistor St Edmund: the earliest known English word -- 3. Undley Common: the first recorded English sentence -- 4. Jarrow: Bede and the origins of English -- 5. Lindisfarne: gliossaries and translations -- 6. Ruthwell: the finest runic inscription -- 7. Stourton and Edington: King Alfred and the birth of English -- 8. Maldon: the ultimate warrior wordsmith -- 9. Winchester: the first standard English -- 10. Cerne Abbas: ?fric and the first English conversation -- 11. Ely: Wulfstan and Old English style -- 12. Peterborough: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- 13. Battle and Normans Bay: the French connection -- 14. Bourne: Orrm and English spelling -- 15. Areley Kings: Layamon's English Chronicle -- 16. Chester and Berkeley: Higden, Trevisa, and the rise of English -- 17. Rhuddlan: the English language in Wales -- 18. Manorbier: little England beyond Wales -- 19. Dunfermline: the birth of Scots English.0 |
| 20. Talbot Yard, London SE1: Chaucer and Middle English -- 21. Canterbury: from ancient to modern -- 22. Cursitor Street, London EC4: Chancery and standard English -- 23. Tothill Street, London SW1: Caxton and printing English -- 24. St. Albans: Juliana Berners and collective nouns -- 25. Paston: a family of letters -- 26. Lutterworth: John Wycliffe and Bible translation -- 27. North Nibley: William Tyndale and the English Bible -- 28. Chichester: William Bullokar and the first English grammar -- 29. Suffolk Lane and St. Paul's, London EC4: Richard Mulcaster and the status of English -- 30. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare and English idiom -- 31. Park Street, London SE1: Shakespeare and linguistic innovation -- 32. Oakham: Robert Cawdrey and the first dictionary -- 33. Willoughby: John Smith and new Englishes -- 34. East India Dock, London E14: the East India Company and global English -- 35. Hampton Court Palace: King James and his Bible -- 36. Black Notley: John Ray and English proverbs -- 37. Aldwincle: John Dryden and an English Academy -- 38. Old Broad Street, London EC2: the Royal Society and scientific English.0 |
| 39. Rochdale: Tim Bobbin and local dialect -- 40. Lichfield and London: Johnson and the dictionary -- 41. Old St Pancras Church, London NW1: John Walker and pronunciation ; 42. York: Lindley Murray and English grammar -- 43. Alloway: Robert Burns and Scots -- 44. Peebles and Edinburgh: the Chambers brothers and encyclopedic English -- 45. Grasmere: William Wordsworth and poetic language -- 46. West Malvern: Roget and the thesaurus -- 47. Bath: Isaac Pitman and English shorthand -- 48. Oxford: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary -- 49. Winterborne Came: William Barnes and speech-craft -- 50. Higher Rockhampton: Thomas Hardy and Wessex dialect -- 51. Saltaire: Joseph Wright and English dialects -- 52. Hinton St George: Henry Fowler and English usage -- 53. Ayot St Lawrence: George Bernard Shaw and spelling reform -- 54. Laugharne: Dylan Thomas and Welsh English -- 55. Tilbury: the Empire Windrush and new dialects -- 56. University College, London WC1: Daniel Jones and English phonetics -- 57. University College, London WC1: the Survey of English Usage -- Regional grouping. |
| Summary |
Who formed and shaped the English language? David and Hilary Crystal take us on a journey through Britain to discover the people who gave our language its colour and character; Saxon invaders, medieval scholars, poets, reformers, dictionary writers. Part travelogue, part history, this beautifully illustrated book is full of unexpected delights. |
| Subjects |
English languag -- History. |
| Great Britai -- History. |
| Great Britai -- Description and travel. |
| Great Britai -- Guidebooks. |
| Other Names |
Crystal, Hilary author. |
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