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This is a Blog for Malmesbury School A2 English Language students which will focus on Language Change and coursework assignments.

Sunday, 15 August 2010

Why do we speak?

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Labels: Investigating Speech
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  • A great site looking at American English. Worth a look!
  • Great Blog to help with Investigations - Grammar, Language Varieties etc.
  • Language Change Time Line - useful
  • The Great Vowel Shift
  • Experts talking about the origin of specific words
  • All The Adventures of English. EXCELLENT!
  • Routes of English Series 1 - 4 BBC Radio 4
  • Olde English Sayings. Where do they come from?
  • LANGUAGE CHANGE - Be a language time traveller
  • LANGUAGE CHANGE - Time Line
  • LANGUAGE CHANGE and the written word
  • Print adverts from 1940s to present day
  • Etymology of everyday phrases
  • FREE etymology dictionary

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