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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First Edition. No dust jacket. Rebound ex-library copy with the usual stamps/stickers. Minimal wear to brown buckram boards. A slight tan to the page edges. Otherwise, a clear, firmly bound copy throughout. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers wbs6986603022
Titel: THE BIRTH OF LANGUAGE
Verlag: J.M. Dent & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum: 1937
Zustand: Good
Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN: Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5854674
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN: Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9802537
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None. 202 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Green cloth cover boards, fading to spine, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked, have a touch of tanning from age. Gilt top edge. Binding tight. Spine straight. In very good condition. Record # 33289. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33289
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Anbieter: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Poor. Volume 213. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN: Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9289202
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Anbieter: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, USA
Softcover. 1st thus. 192 p.; 18 cm. (Guild books ; no. 213) [Original title: The birth of language, 1937; Shaw's preface added to this edition] From the Shavian preface: `My grandfather swore "be the varchoo" of his oath: I prefer vert-yoo. Edge-i-cate is less refined than ed-you-cate. The late Helen Taylor, John Stuart Mill's stepdaughter, who as a public speaker always said Russ-ya and Pruss-ya instead of Rusher and Prussher, left her hearers awestruck. The indefinite article, a neutral sound sometimes called the obscure vowel, and the commonest sound in our language though we cannot print it except by turning an e upside down, was always pronounced by Mrs. Annie Besant, perhaps the greatest British oratress of her time, as if it rhymed with pay. In short, we are all over the shop with our vowels because we cannot spell them with our alphabet. Like Scott, Dickens, Artemus Ward and other writers of dialect I have made desperate efforts to represent local and class dialects by the twentysix letters of the Latin alphabet,but found it impossible and had to give it up. A well-known actor,when studying one of my cockney parts,had to copy it in ordinary spelling before he could learn it. My concern here, however, is not with pronunciation but with the saving of time wasted. We try to extend our alphabet by writing two letters insteadof one;but we make a mess of this device.With reckless inconsistency we write sweat and sweet, and then write whet and wheat, just the contrary. Consistency is not always a virtue; but spelling becomes a will o' the wisp without it. There is nothing for it but to design 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels, making in all a new alphabet of 42 letters, and use it side by side with the present lettering until the better ousts the worse.'(24-8) VG, sewn, in orig. green wrapper. Pages toned. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 023070
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