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The most important imple- ment 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 ...
The most important imple- ment 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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 286 |
| 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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