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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 8 line illus. |
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