Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English, by Janet Sorensen
The speech of the lower classes won acceptance only after a make-over, finds Elspeth Jajdelska
The speech of the lower classes won acceptance only after a make-over, finds Elspeth Jajdelska
In her review of Janet Sorensen’s Strange Vernaculars, Elspeth Jajdelska says the book “explains how the speech of criminals, provincials, the labouring classes and sailors was recreated in print to...