Table of Contents: “…The common tongue -- The Great Escape -- Conquest -- Holding on -- The speech of kings -- Chaucer -- God's English -- English and the language of the state -- William Tyndale's Bible -- A Renaissance of words -- Preparing the ground -- Shakespeare's English -- "My America" -- Wild West words -- Sold down the river -- Mastering the language -- The proper way to talk -- Steam, streets, and slang -- Indian Takeover -- The West Indies -- Advance Australia -- Warts and all -- All over the world -- And now . . . ?…”

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