Inventing English. A Portable History of the Language

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introductionFinding English, Finding Us chapter 1.Caedmon Learns to Sing chapter 2.From Beowulf to Wulfstan chapter 3.In This Year chapter 4.From Kingdom to Realm chapter 5.Lord of This Langage chapter 6.I Is as Ille a Millere as Are Ye chapter 7.The Great Vowel Shift and theChanging Character of English chapter 8.Chancery, Caxton, and theMaking of English Prose chapter 9.I Do, I Will chapter 10.A Universal Hubbub Wild chapter 11.Visible Speech chapter 12.A Harmless Drudge chapter 13.Horrid, Hooting Stanzas chapter 14.Antses in the Sugar chapter15.Hello, Dude chapter 16.Ready for the Funk chapter 17.Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest chapter 18.Listening to Private Ryan chapter 19.He Speaks in Your Voice appendix English Sounds and Their Representation glossary references and further reading acknowledgments index