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Eyes Like Blank Discs: The Guardian's Steven Poole On George Orwell's Politics And The English Language
Article
2013
Poole's review of Orwell is itself a textbook example of the kind of alienated response described by Orwell, Fromm and Schmidt. Whereas Orwell's essay is the work of an impassioned, outspoken individu...
The President's Speech
Sacks, Oliver
Article
1984
Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry
Goodman, Paul
Book
1971
Goodman writes, "I do not think there can be a rule for the appropriate use of formal or vernacular language...The best is to try for a vernacular that molds itself to what is going on and to use it c...

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Here's What Shakespeare's Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
Abraham
2011
In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago. They answer the most ba...
Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bryson, Bill
1994
A history of American English.
Talk Talk Talk
An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech
Ingram, Jay
1992
Ingram explores the many aspects of talking.