The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... remain this area of negligible variation . The two members of the same family speak alike only when one consents to over- look the differences between them . So any dialect that is established must be established on the basis of those ...
... remain this area of negligible variation . The two members of the same family speak alike only when one consents to over- look the differences between them . So any dialect that is established must be established on the basis of those ...
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... remain an area of variation , a kind of twilight zone of unintelligibility , between them , experience shows us that practically satis- factory communication by means of language is never- theless possible . It is made so by the further ...
... remain an area of variation , a kind of twilight zone of unintelligibility , between them , experience shows us that practically satis- factory communication by means of language is never- theless possible . It is made so by the further ...
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... remain , and the words comprising it would have as much authority and justification for their existence in the language as they have now . Dictionaries are in short merely a record of language after the event . They 48 A TOUCHSTONE FOR ...
... remain , and the words comprising it would have as much authority and justification for their existence in the language as they have now . Dictionaries are in short merely a record of language after the event . They 48 A TOUCHSTONE FOR ...
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... remain unchanged in both and still by test of experience be an English word . If etymological origins , grammatical analysis , extent of use and other similar rules prove to be unsatisfactory tests whereby English may justify itself ...
... remain unchanged in both and still by test of experience be an English word . If etymological origins , grammatical analysis , extent of use and other similar rules prove to be unsatisfactory tests whereby English may justify itself ...
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... remain nevertheless very rudimentary first steps . If every man , woman , and child in America could be taught to spell , write , and speak correctly , that is , regularly , this achievement in itself would be nothing to be proud of ...
... remain nevertheless very rudimentary first steps . If every man , woman , and child in America could be taught to spell , write , and speak correctly , that is , regularly , this achievement in itself would be nothing to be proud of ...
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acquired adjective adverbs Anglo-Saxon artist become called Celts century Chaucer colloquial common consonant correctness cultivated custom dative definition dialect dictionary distinction elements England English language English speech English word etymology example existence experience expression fact feeling formal forms of speech free verse French gender Germanic languages guage habits human idiom Indo-European languages Indo-European parent speech inflectional intelligible kind Latin less linguistic literary literature logical matter meaning merely Middle English mind Modern English mood nature notion noun origin perhaps period person phonetic phrase plural poet poetry popular possessive possible practical present preterite pronoun pronounced pronunciation prose purist question reason regular result rhythm rules Saxon sense sentence Shakspere simple singular social sounds speak speaker spelling split infinitive strong verbs structure student style syllable tense term things thought tion traditional unity verb verse vocabulary vowel weak inflection whole writing