Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Revised and Expanded Edition by Seth Lerer

Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Revised and Expanded Edition

Seth Lerer

352 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the large...

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