Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Organized Babel; 2. A universal resource; 3. Cracks in the academic monolith; 4. Models of English; 5. Standardness; 6. Scots and Southron; 7. Substrates and supersubstrates; 8. The Latin analogy; 9. The shapes of English; Index.

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Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.