OED news -- two new books about English

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:54 AM -0700 9/21/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Who was arguing about "correct" English in 1006 ?  Or is the
>"thousand-year" claim forgivable because they're selling us
>something ?
>
>   I.e., just "truthiness" ?

Or just misquotation by the relevant blurber?  The "book description"
itself at amazon.com just talks about how "issues that were bothering
people 250 years ago are still bothering people today", which seems
fair enough.

LH

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>"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>>>From the OED (I assume many here have seen this, but if not, the
>subtitle of the second book below is amusing):
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>Language news
>Two new books from Oxford University Press focus on the history of
>the language and our battles to control it.
>The Oxford History of English, edited by Lynda Mugglestone: fifteen
>leading experts chart the story of spoken and written English from
>its Indo-European origins to worldwide use in the twenty-first century.
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>http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199249312
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>The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left, by
>David Crystal: the lively and illuminating story of a thousand years
>of arguments about 'correct' English, by one of today's leading
>language 'gurus'.
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>Joel
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