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A Primer of Spoken English
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Hardcover
from Bibliobazaar (August 30, 2008)
9780554681764 | details & prices | 251 pages | List price $24.99
About: Format Hardcover Subject History Historical Geography
About: Format Hardcover Subject History Historical Geography
Paperback
from Createspace Independent Pub (March 29, 2016)
9781530805006 | details & prices | 110 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | List price $6.99
About: We heartily recommend this scholarly little book to the notice of everyone who takes an intelligent interest in the English language and who wants a clear and systematic account of our language as it is spoken at the present day The book before us small as it is is well worthy of attention as it is a first attempt to bring before the intellectual consciousness of Englishmen the phonetic character of the language they are speaking and hearing every day of their lives In this respect it may be said to be an epoch making book There are scores of Spelling Books Accidences Grammars and other Philological Works treating of the English language as it exists on the written page but this is the very first book which attempts to give the plain ordinarily educated Englishman without unnecessary technical detail an absolutely faithful picture a phonetic photograph of our language as it is now spoken by educated people In 1886 the Clarendon Press published Mr Sweet s Elementarbuch des gesprochenen Englisch a work intended mainly as its title implied for the instruction of the German student And now at last we may welcome an English Primer on the same subject so that we may really hope soon to know almost as much about the language we speak as any average German doctor of philosophy The Elementarbuch has met with well deserved success in Germany and we have reason for believing that in that country it is universally held to be an unimpeachable authority on the subject it deals with We have no doubt that in time the Primer will meet with like success in England Before long it will be admitted by scholars that we have here a scientifically satisfactory analysis of the sounds of every day English Still we must confess that we should not be surprised to find that to many this book will be at first a rock of offence that to many the facts recorded will come at the first blush as a strange and painful and most unwelcome revelation Many will fiercely d
About: We heartily recommend this scholarly little book to the notice of everyone who takes an intelligent interest in the English language and who wants a clear and systematic account of our language as it is spoken at the present day The book before us small as it is is well worthy of attention as it is a first attempt to bring before the intellectual consciousness of Englishmen the phonetic character of the language they are speaking and hearing every day of their lives In this respect it may be said to be an epoch making book There are scores of Spelling Books Accidences Grammars and other Philological Works treating of the English language as it exists on the written page but this is the very first book which attempts to give the plain ordinarily educated Englishman without unnecessary technical detail an absolutely faithful picture a phonetic photograph of our language as it is now spoken by educated people In 1886 the Clarendon Press published Mr Sweet s Elementarbuch des gesprochenen Englisch a work intended mainly as its title implied for the instruction of the German student And now at last we may welcome an English Primer on the same subject so that we may really hope soon to know almost as much about the language we speak as any average German doctor of philosophy The Elementarbuch has met with well deserved success in Germany and we have reason for believing that in that country it is universally held to be an unimpeachable authority on the subject it deals with We have no doubt that in time the Primer will meet with like success in England Before long it will be admitted by scholars that we have here a scientifically satisfactory analysis of the sounds of every day English Still we must confess that we should not be surprised to find that to many this book will be at first a rock of offence that to many the facts recorded will come at the first blush as a strange and painful and most unwelcome revelation Many will fiercely d
from Bibliobazaar (August 30, 2008)
9780554681740 | details & prices | 187 pages | List price $15.99
About: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
About: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.