By hook or by crook: a journey in search of English
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2007
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX
PREFACE
ХІ
MAP XV
ι
By Hook or by Crook:
g
aer
w
en i
2
Making a Beeline:
menai
13
3
We Want Information: portmeirion
31
4
Where are You From?: welshpool
50
5
Good Evening, Each: Birmingham
70
6
Book-Browser Syndrome: hay
88
7
Now
Godiva
was a Lady: leominster
108
8
The Robot s not Working: risbury
128
9
Who was Leonard Slye?: stratford
150
10
Shall We Shog?: kolkata
172
11
A Rash of Dermatologists:
arden
188
12
A Wheelbarrow Called Wilberforce: lichfield
207
13
How do You Like Your Eggs?:
san francisco
228
14
My Husband is Without:
lo
d z
248
15
I m Jack: llangollen
267
on the way: references and sources
287
index of places
293
index of people and characters 30i
index of topics 307
Illustrations
Sign at Llanfairpwll station
4
Original graffiti on Vaynol wall
24
The toll-house near Porthmadog, and the cob
37
The toll-board at Porthmadog
39
The Caistor runes
43
The Undley bracteate
44
Henry Higgins notebook, and David Abercrombie in Old Romic
60
The Maypure living sculpture
84
The Swan at Hay
90
Hay Castle with books
99
Ex
libris
and His book bookplates
102
Godiva
at Barcelona airport
115
Railway warning sign near Leominster
124
Directions on Chigona Hill
147
The Black Swan/Dirty Duck sign in Stratford
154
The Midsummer Night s Dream sculpture in Stratford
162
Word-break in Mumbai
176
Signpost near Bricklehampton
193
Johnson statue in Lichfield
212
Quonians plaque in Lichfield
217
Pier
39
in San Francisco
237
Tavern sign in Wroclaw
258
Shoppe sign in Melbourne
275
Shoppe sign and street-name etymology in Winchcombe
276
David
Crystal has been described by The
Times Higher Education Supplement as a
latter-day
Dr
Johnson , and by John
Humphrys as a national treasure . Now,
in a delightfully discursive journey
through the groves and thickets of the
English language, he combines personal
reflections, historical allusions and
traveller s observations to create a
mesmerizing and entertaining narrative
account of his encounters with the
language and its speakers.
The book s starting point is a quest in
search of English accents in Wales, but in
making that journey David Crystal soon
finds himself coming across intriguing
linguistic side roads that he cannot resist
exploring. From the names of pubs (why
do swans feature in so many of them?) to
those of
diesel locomotives;
from
Shakespeare and Tolkien to the
unbelievably prolific, yet almost totally
unknown, poet John Bradburne; from
the
1960s
cult television programme The
Prisoner to the recipe and etymology of
Bovril; from the ancient runes carved on
the anklebone of a roe deer to the
seemingly irresistible spread of Internet
spam
-
all these and many more are
subjected to David Crystal s inquisitive
examination, and all cast fascinating and
often unexpected light on the development
of English as it is spoken today.
In Search of English is a linguistic
travelogue like no other, an attempt to
capture the seductive, teasing, quirky,
tantalizing nature of language study.
The result is a uniquely diverting
exploration by our foremost scholar
of the English language.
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Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX
PREFACE
ХІ
MAP XV
ι
By Hook or by Crook:
g
aer
w
en i
2
Making a Beeline:
menai
13
3
We Want Information: portmeirion
31
4
Where are You From?: welshpool
50
5
Good Evening, Each: Birmingham
70
6
Book-Browser Syndrome: hay
88
7
Now
Godiva
was a Lady: leominster
108
8
The Robot's not Working: risbury
128
9
Who was Leonard Slye?: stratford
150
10
Shall We Shog?: kolkata
172
11
A Rash of Dermatologists:
arden
188
12
A Wheelbarrow Called Wilberforce: lichfield
207
13
How do You Like Your Eggs?:
san francisco
228
14
My Husband is Without:
lo
d z
248
15
I'm Jack: llangollen
267
on the way: references and sources
287
index of places
293
index of people and characters 30i
index of topics 307
Illustrations
Sign at Llanfairpwll station
4
Original graffiti on Vaynol wall
24
The toll-house near Porthmadog, and the cob
37
The toll-board at Porthmadog
39
The Caistor runes
43
The Undley bracteate
44
Henry Higgins' notebook, and 'David Abercrombie' in Old Romic
60
The Maypure living sculpture
84
The Swan at Hay
90
Hay Castle with books
99
'Ex
libris'
and 'His book' bookplates
102
Godiva
at Barcelona airport
115
Railway warning sign near Leominster
124
Directions on Chigona Hill
147
The Black Swan/Dirty Duck sign in Stratford
154
The Midsummer Night's Dream sculpture in Stratford
162
Word-break in Mumbai
176
Signpost near Bricklehampton
193
Johnson statue in Lichfield
212
Quonians plaque in Lichfield
217
Pier
39
in San Francisco
237
Tavern sign in Wroclaw
258
Shoppe sign in Melbourne
275
Shoppe sign and street-name etymology in Winchcombe
276
David
Crystal has been described by The
Times Higher Education Supplement as a
'latter-day
Dr
Johnson', and by John
Humphrys as 'a national treasure'. Now,
in a delightfully discursive journey
through the groves and thickets of the
English language, he combines personal
reflections, historical allusions and
traveller's observations to create a
mesmerizing and entertaining narrative
account of his encounters with the
language and its speakers.
The book's starting point is a quest in
search of English accents in Wales, but in
making that journey David Crystal soon
finds himself coming across intriguing
linguistic side roads that he cannot resist
exploring. From the names of pubs (why
do swans feature in so many of them?) to
those of
diesel locomotives;
from
Shakespeare and Tolkien to the
unbelievably prolific, yet almost totally
unknown, poet John Bradburne; from
the
1960s
cult television programme The
Prisoner to the recipe and etymology of
Bovril; from the ancient runes carved on
the anklebone of a roe deer to the
seemingly irresistible spread of Internet
spam
-
all these and many more are
subjected to David Crystal's inquisitive
examination, and all cast fascinating and
often unexpected light on the development
of English as it is spoken today.
In Search of English is a linguistic
travelogue like no other, an attempt to
capture the seductive, teasing, quirky,
tantalizing nature of language study.
The result is a uniquely diverting
exploration by our foremost scholar
of the English language. |
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