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Linguistic Change in Progress: Back to the Inner Circle are likely to be few dramatic changes: what we can observe are changes of preference, of frequency. Interestingly, changes in recent English grammar tend to follow particular patterns, which we list as follows:

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The Language of the Parker Chronicle. During the 200 years after William Caxton set up his printing press in London, the language continued to undergo great changes, especially changes that have social or cultural origins, rather than purely linguistic ones. This period, called ., sees the forging of a modern standard English language.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5668-2l parts of the world, they are concentrated most densely in the Caribbean, and their historical development cannot be better exemplified than by Jamaican creole in that region. The first question to answer is: ‘What is a creole?’ But before that, here is a little Caribbean history (Figure 9.1).

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American and British English large proportion of all native speakers of English (over 80 per cent). Second, they have historically been the origin of the whole gamut of world-wide English. Figure 8.1 shows the global provenance of English, branching out from the two rootstocks of BrE and AmE.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02366-0n that Received Pronunciation, which is associated with southern England, has traditionally had a high rating as being pleasing, articulate and prestigious. In comparison, Northern accents (for example) are rated poorly for these qualities, especially urban accents. But this is only one side of the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04066-7a major factor in altering the linguistic character of the Internet, as for the first time the majority of users are not just reading content on the Internet but actively adding to it, and most of these additions are expressed in their own languages. Even endangered languages can benefit from the In