The Quarterly Review, Volumes 292-293William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero, George Walter Prothero J. Murray, 1954 |
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Page 183
... English . Apart from the accidents of war and conquest , there are several good reasons why English should have taken on . It is , like Chinese , an uninflected language ; and in spite of certain disadvantages , an uninflected language ...
... English . Apart from the accidents of war and conquest , there are several good reasons why English should have taken on . It is , like Chinese , an uninflected language ; and in spite of certain disadvantages , an uninflected language ...
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... English , from Old English ' to ' Maturity ' in the sixteenth century . There are chapters on sounds and spelling , word creation , slang and dialect , British and American English , to name only a few . The book is never dull , though ...
... English , from Old English ' to ' Maturity ' in the sixteenth century . There are chapters on sounds and spelling , word creation , slang and dialect , British and American English , to name only a few . The book is never dull , though ...
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... English , of course , is not wholly uninflected . It has dispensed with the inessentials , such as gender . English has surely gained everything and lost nothing by casting off this useless burden which all the other well - known ...
... English , of course , is not wholly uninflected . It has dispensed with the inessentials , such as gender . English has surely gained everything and lost nothing by casting off this useless burden which all the other well - known ...
Contents
JULY 1953 | 17 |
Ancient and Modern Oratory | 28 |
From Past to Present | 30 |
Copyright | |
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