OED news -- two new books about English

[Jonathan Lighter]

Is the vowel correct in "shot" ?

  JL

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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Didn't *anyone* like "ate, shot, and left"?

Joel

At 9/21/2006 12:54 PM, you 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" ?
>
> JL
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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.
>
>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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