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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The book “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (David Crystal, 1995) notes that the Gale Research Company book “The Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary” contains over 400,000 entries. I'd like to know names of PHILOLOGISTS or GRAMMARIANS who have published GOOD -academically speaking- books on the HISTORY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language - David Crystal. English is arguably the nearest thing we have to a world language, and yet it is a language with a wealth of varieties, dialects, and traditions, all developing in different ways and at different speeds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language describes the subjunctive as “an archaic verb form”. Download The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Browse the world's largest eBookstore and start reading today on the web,. Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 02:22. The BBC World Service Learning English says the subjunctive is used less and less. In addition, the manuscripts are important sources for the history of the English language; in particular, the later Peterborough text is one of the earliest examples of Middle English in existence. Also unconfirmed, is the origin of the mini-donut. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.