Guide to Language Change

Table of contents

• What is a Good Language?
• Poetic English
• The Latin Prototype
• Eccentric Arguments
• The Other Side of the Coinage
• Fear of the Colonies and Slang
• Johnson's Dictionary
• Correctness
• The Evils of Rhetoric and Jargon
• Are we all to Blame? If so, what for?
• Last Words

Other Study Guides classics

• A Hero of our Time — Mikhail Lermontov
• Moses and Monotheism — Sigmund Freud
• Aeneid — Virgil
• Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
• Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
• Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope