Questions at Issue in Our English Speech
By Edwin W. Bowen
Length4h 27m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Perhaps the true explanation of this variation be tween British and American usage is found in the fact that America is a new country, and hence tradition here does not carry such binding authority as in the Old World. There the pronunciation has been handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, among a people to the manner born. Here conditions are much altered. America has a large foreign-born element, and consequently many of the people cannot claim English as their native tongue and are compelled to learn it as a foreign language. Hence they rely, in a measure, upon the spelling to indicate the pronunciation of English, making it a study for the eye quite as much as for the ear. If in democratic America the habits of speech were as thoroughly established as they are in aristocratic England then we should speak the English language without any reference to its orthography. But political conditions have modified our American English somewhat, causing it to vary slightly from British usage."
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GenreOther
Length4 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1OUR ENGLISH SPELLING OF YESTERDAY—WHY ANTIQUATED?
5BRITICISMS VERSUS AMERICANISMS.
2A QUESTION OF PREFERENCE IN ENGLISH SPELLING.
6WHAT IS SLANG?
3AUTHORITY IN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.
7STANDARD ENGLISH—HOW IT AROSE AND HOW IT IS MAINTAINED.
4VULGARISMS WITH A PEDIGREE.
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