The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language.
- Author / Editor
- Piercy, Joseph.
The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language.
- Published
- London: Michael O'Mara, 2012.
- Physical Description
- 192 pp.
- Description
- A history of the English language that emphasizes sidelights (alphabets, reform movements, etc.) as well as major developments (Old English through Post-Modern English), with a select bibliography, an index, and recurrent attention to literature, including Chaucer's CT (pp. 68-74), here characterized as having a small "initial impact" on the English language although its continued popularity exerted an influence through time.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion