Points of View: Aspects of Present-day English

by R.W.Burchfield (Author)

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  1992

  $3.41

  This is a collection of essays and reflections by Robert Burchfield, the editor of the Supplement to the First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary . Many of the pieces in this personal survey of the English language as it is used throughout the world come from his popular Sunday Times column, Words and Meanings , and focus on such contentious issues as using between you and me or between you and I , and the 29 meanings of the verb to want . The book also includes an essay on the Fowler brothers and usage handbooks, and an outline history of euphemisms in English.