Janet Sorensen: 1 book
Strange Vernaculars
How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain
While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied—from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period—less well-known...
