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A History of English Language

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theory or to new discoveries in Baugh’s original work, but its format allows the easy<br />

adjustment <strong>of</strong> separable parts.<br />

It is a pity that a new preface by convention loses the expression <strong>of</strong> thanks to<br />

colleagues whose suggestions made the previous edition a better book. The fifth edition<br />

has especially benefited from astute comments by Traugott Lawler and William<br />

Kretzschmar. The author as ever is sustained by the cartoonist perspective <strong>of</strong> Carole<br />

Cable, who he trusts will find nothing in the present effort to serve as grist for her gentle<br />

satiric mill.<br />

T.C.<br />

A <strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> the <strong>English</strong> <strong>Language</strong>

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