by Martyn Wakelin · Shire · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747801764
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«Discovering English Dialects» is Martyn Wakelin's essay on English dialects, published by Shire in paperback (64 pages, in English).
The book reviews the most relevant features of England's regional dialects, from the medieval Norse imprint on northern vocabulary to the remnants of Cornish, including the North/Midlands dialect boundary and archaic noun forms. A final chapter addresses the specialized vocabularies of traditional trades such as mining and fishing.
It is part of the Shire Discovering series (no. 235); this is its fourth edition.
A book aimed at linguistics students and anyone interested in the evolution of the English language.
