All Stories

  1. Daniel DeWispelare. Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 336 pp., 9 figures, $ 69.95/£ 45.50.
  2. Jürg R. Schwyter. 2016. Dictating to the mob. The history of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English
  3. Robert McColl Millar. Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, xi + 210 pp., £ 75.00.
  4. Review of Hughes, Trudgill & Watt (2012): English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles
  5. T. L. Burton (ed.).The Sound of William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: 1. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, first collection (1844). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2013, xix + 593 pp., $ 66.00.
  6. Review of Beal, Burbano-Elizondo & Llamas (2012): Urban North-Eastern English: Tyneside to Teesside
  7. Roots of English: Exploring the History of Dialects
  8. English: past, present and future
  9. The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English
  10. The place of pronunciation in eighteenth-century grammars of English
  11. Joan C. Beal, An introduction to regional Englishes: Dialect variation in England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 122. Hb. £70.
  12. Jeremy J. Smith. Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader
  13. ‘All the Lads and Lasses’: lexical variation in Tyne and Wear
  14. Evidence from sources after 1500
  15. David Crystal, Evolving English: One language, many voices. London: The British Library, 2010. Pp. 159.
  16. Special issue: selected papers from the fourth International Conference on Late Modern English
  17. ‘By Those Provincials Mispronounced’: The strut Vowel in Eighteenth-Century Pronouncing Dictionaries
  18. Prescriptivism and Pronouncing Dictionaries: Past and Present
  19. William Barnes’s dialect poems: a pronunciation guide
  20. Can’t see the wood for the trees?
  21. 1. Late Modern English in its historical context
  22. Charles Barber, Joan C. Beal, & Philip A. Shaw, The English language: A historical introduction. 2nd edn.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. vii, 306. Pb. $29.99.
  23. Perspectives on Prescriptivism, ed. Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera & Massimo Sturiale
  24. The grocer's apostrophe: popular prescriptivism in the 21st century
  25. Joan C. Beal, Carmela Nocera & Massimo Sturiale (eds.). Perspectives on prescriptivism (Linguistic Insights 73). Bern: Peter Lang, 2008. Pp. 269 + 9 tables and graphs. ISBN 978-3-03911-632-4.
  26. Treasure-house of the Language: The Living OED. By Charlotte Brewer
  27. The English Language
  28. English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Charles Jones
  29. Katie Wales. 2006. Northern English: A Social and Cultural History
  30. ARTHUR HUGHES, PETER TRUDGILL AND DOMINIC WATT, English accents and dialects: An introduction to social and regional varieties of English in the British Isles
  31. English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Charles Jones
  32. Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
  33. Creating and digitizing language corpora
  34. New approaches to the study of later modern English
  35. Joan C. Beal, English in modern times: 1700–1945. London: Arnold, 2004. xvi + 264 pp. ISBN 0 340 76117 2
  36. Introduction
  37. No, nay, never
  38. A tale of two dialects
  39. ‘Out in Left Field’: Spelling Reformers of the Eighteenth Century
  40. HappY-tensing: A recent innovation?
  41. Martina Häcker, Adverbial clauses in Scots: a semantic-syntactic study (Topics in English Linguistics 27, ed. Berndt Kortmann & Elizabeth Closs Traugott). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. vii + 253. DM 158, ISBN 3 11 015780 2.
  42. Joan C. Beal, English pronunciation in the eighteenth century: Thomas Spence's Grand repository of the English language. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xii+239.
  43. Joan Beal, English pronunciation in the eighteenth century. Thomas Spence's ‘Grand repository of the English language’. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 239. £60, ISBN 0 19 823781 2.
  44. The Jocks and the Geordies
  45. K. M. Petyt, Dialect and accent in industrial West Yorkshire. (Varieties of English around the World. General Series, 6.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1985. Pp. 401.
  46. Sociohistorical Linguistics - K. C. Phillips, Language and class in Victorian England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. viii + 190.
  47. Language in the U.S.A.
  48. The Grammar of Headlines in the Times 1870-1970
  49. Lengthening ofain Tyneside English
  50. Prescriptivism and the suppression of variation
  51. Perceptual dialectology
  52. The Germanic languages
  53. Old English
  54. Norsemen and Normans
  55. Middle English
  56. Early Modern English
  57. Late Modern English
  58. Bibliography
  59. What is language?
  60. Levelling and enregisterment in northern dialects of late Modern English
  61. English as a world language
  62. English today and tomorrow
  63. Notes and suggestions for further reading
  64. Preface to the second edition
  65. Map showing the counties of England
  66. The flux of language
  67. The Indo-European languages
  68. 'Time and Tyne': a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English