TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crystal, David 
AU  - English Stories
TI  - The stories of English
SN  - 9780141015934
U1  - 427 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Penguin, 
KW  - English language -- History
KW  - English language
N1  - Introduction --
The standard story --
The real story --
The origins of Old English --
The Old English dialects --
Early lexical diversity --
Stylistic variation in Old English --
The transition to Middle English --
A trilingual nation --
Lexical invasions --
Evolving variation --
A dialect age --The emerging standard --
Printing and its consequences --
Early modern English preoccupations --
Linguistic daring --
Dialect fallout --
Stabilizing disorder --
Standard rules --
New horizons --
Lingusitic life goes on --
And dialect life goes on --
Times a-changin'
N2  - Crystal offers the reader with not only the authoritative history of standard English, but also narrates the stories of the dialects of English, showing how they influenced the development of standard English. Numerous panels describe word histories and look in detail at specific idiosyncracies
ER  -