Strange Vernaculars : : How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English / / Janet Sorensen.
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less well-known ar...
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