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philostahl
Nov 18, 2009, 3:46:20 AM11/18/09
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Is there a book-length treatment of the separation of American English
from British English?
from British English?
Peter T. Daniels
Nov 18, 2009, 8:30:48 AM11/18/09
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On Nov 18, 3:46 am, philostahl <philost...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a book-length treatment of the separation of American English
> from British English?
> Is there a book-length treatment of the separation of American English
> from British English?
There are many.
A good place to start might be David Crystal's *Stories of English*
(not the "Story of English" TV tie-in book of some decades ago).
A scholarly place to start might be vol. 6 of the Cambridge History of
the English Language.
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