Avenues for Further Learning

Abley, Mark. The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Bailey, Richard W. Images of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Baugh, Albert C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 5th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Blount, Roy, Jr. Alphabet Juice. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.

Bragg, Melvyn. The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2004.

Bryson, Bill. Mother Tongue. New York: William Morrow, 1990.

Crystal, David. By Hook or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English. Woodstock, N.Y: Overlook Press, 2008.

Elmes, Simon, and Melvyn Bragg. The Routes of English. 4 vols. London: BBC Consumer Publishing, 1999-2001.

Flavell, Linda, and Roger Flavell. The Chronology of Words and Phrases. London: Trafalgar Square, 2000.

Freeborn, Dennis. From Old English to Standard English. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1998.

Graddol, David, Dick Leith, and Joan Swann, eds. English: History, Diversity, and Change. London: Routledge, 1996.

Hitchings, Henry. The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.

Hughes, Geoffrey. Words in Time. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.

Kacirk, Jeffrey. Altered English. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2002.

Katzner, Kenneth. The Language of the World. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Leith, Dick. A Social History of English. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.

McWhorter, John. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English. New York: Gotham Books, 2008.

Montagu, Ashley. The Anatomy of Swearing. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1967.

Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. London: Routledge, 1949.

Pennycook, Alistair. The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Rees, Nigel. Dictionary of Word & Phrase Origins. London: Cassell, 1996.

Singh, Ishtla. Pidgins and Creoles, An Introduction. London: Edward Arnold, 2000.

Watts, Richard, and Peter Trudgill, eds. Alternative Histories of English. London: Routledge, 2002.

Wilton, David. Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.