Author: William Douglas Parish
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: William Douglas Parish
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Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: W. D. Parish
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385234069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author: Elizabeth Mary Wright
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Christopher Hilliard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192520261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging the police and the prosecuting lawyers as much any capital crime. When a leading Metropolitan Police detective was tasked with solving the case, he questioned the residents of the seaside town of Littlehampton about their neighbours' vocabularies, how often they wrote letters, what their handwriting was like, whether they swore -- and how they swore, for the letters at the heart of the case were often bizarre in their abuse. The archive that the investigation produced shows in extraordinary detail how ordinary people could use the English language in inventive and surprising ways at a time when universal literacy was still a novelty. Their personal lives, too, had surprises. The detective's inquiries and the courtroom dramas laid bare their secrets and the intimate details of neighbourhood and family life. Drawing on these records, The Littlehampton Libels traces the tangles of devotion and resentment, desire and manipulation, in a working-class community. We are used to emotional complexity in books about the privileged, but history is seldom able to recover the inner lives of ordinary people in this way.

Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110577542
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly.

Author: James Milroy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317896955
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.

Author: Michael O'Leary
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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With screaming demons in Wealdon copses and dragons lurking in bottomless ponds, the folk tales of Sussex truly represent the diversity of the area. Meet knuckers and willocks, mawkins and marsh monsters, the Piltdown Man, Lord Moon of Amberley Swamp and the princess of the Mixon Hole. There is also something terrible crawling to Crawley from Gatwick, which develops a degraded appetite in a bin... From ghosts and madmen to witches and wise women, Michael O'Leary reveals many of the hidden horrors of Sussex – horrors that can be found in the most beautiful places, or that lurk beneath the seemingly mundane. Amid these dark tales are stories of humour and silliness, of love, lust and passion.

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Languages : en
Pages : 834

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