Table of contents
Prefacevii
List of contributors
Linguistic evaluation of earlier texts
Non-standard language in earlier English
Assessing non-standard writing in lexicography
Northern English in Writing
Southern English in writing
The distinctiveness of Scots: Perceptions and reality
Irish English in early modern drama: The birth of a linguistic stereotype
‘[H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled’: Writing Ulster English
Dialect literature and English in the USA: Standardization and national linguistic identity
Written sources for Canadian English: Phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger
Earlier Caribbean English and Creole in writing
Earliest St Helenian English in writing: Evidence from the St Helena Consultations (1682–1723)
An abundant harvest to the philologer’? Jeremiah Goldswain, Thomas Shone and nineteenth-century South African English
A peculiar language’: Linguistic evidence for early Australian English
Describing and complaining: Written evidence of early New Zealand English pronunciation
Feature index
Name index
Subject index
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