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Examines the rich variety of the regional dialects of English in all its forms, ancient and modern. The book outlines the history and geography of English dialects which are the result of 1500 years of linguistic and cultural development.
Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal artic…