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Borodkin, Thelma L. – 1981
After 1580 the English language was no longer considered barbarous because important works had been written in it, its vocabulary had expanded, and it had been adorned with the devices of classical rhetoric. It did not have, however, a dictionary or grammar, the fourth quality that makes a language eloquent. Thus, the eighteenth century…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English
