
This text celebrates the rich variety of regional and social dialects of English in all its forms, ancient and modern.

This text celebrates the rich variety of regional and social dialects of English in all its forms, ancient and modern. In this new, revised and extended edition, Trudgill includes phonetic symbols along with the orthographic representations of speech sounds. Zummerzet and Scouse,...

English dialects are many and varied, and this volume contains a selection of studies looking at grammar, dialect and some of the theoretical issues involved in dialectology.