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The most important implement of that power is the English language , and never
before has the community been so speech - conscious . There are spoken
languages not yet reduced to writing . Moreover , organic changes in language
first ...
The most important implement of that power is the English language , and never
before has the community been so speech - conscious . There are spoken
languages not yet reduced to writing . Moreover , organic changes in language
first ...
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Children born into privileged homes come to use what is termed good or
standard English , e.g. ' I haven't any , compared with the sub - standard ' I ain't
got none . ' Yet widely different pronunciations are equally acceptable , e.g.
Northern and ...
Children born into privileged homes come to use what is termed good or
standard English , e.g. ' I haven't any , compared with the sub - standard ' I ain't
got none . ' Yet widely different pronunciations are equally acceptable , e.g.
Northern and ...
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Phoneticians would notate the agreed sounds of this universal English already
spoken by about 180 million people and so simple in grammar . I would suggest
as a beginning the northern castle , ' and northern ' home , ' but not ' ai ' in ' tame '
...
Phoneticians would notate the agreed sounds of this universal English already
spoken by about 180 million people and so simple in grammar . I would suggest
as a beginning the northern castle , ' and northern ' home , ' but not ' ai ' in ' tame '
...
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Contents
The Course of Conservative Politics | 1 |
The South African Indians and U N O N | 2 |
The Language of the Underworld | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1948 |
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