Summary: The making of English is the story of three great invasions and a cultural revolution. This classic PBS program shows how an early form of English was carried to Britain by invading Anglo-Saxons, how that language was all but obliterated by waves of Viking settlers, and how it was reshaped by the French-speaking Normans. The fact that English survived on the lips of people who left no written...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The Scottish tongue is one of the oldest in Britain, a Northern variety of English that, but for the accidents of history, might have become a separate language. This classic PBS program deals with the influence of the Scots in spreading the language of their historic enemies-the Sassenachs of the South-around the world. The program begins in the 15th century, the golden age of the Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Will standard English, as it was known in the 20th century, disappear? Will English continue as the global tongue, or will its numerous varieties become, as offshoots of Latin did, a host of mutually unintelligible languages? This classic PBS program features new varieties of English that have transcended British and American influence. The program focuses on some of the most successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Gullah-the African-influenced dialect of Georgia's Sea Islands-has undergone few changes since the first slave ships landed 300 years ago, and provides a clear window into the shaping of African-American English. This classic PBS program traces that story from the west coast of Africa through the American South, then to large northern cities in the 1920s. Studying the origins of West African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: English is a language spoken by two billion people, perhaps even more. This classic PBS program examines the prevalence of English in the world today and presents a historical overview of its rise. Focusing on the expansion of the British Empire and the emergence of English-language mass media, the program explains how widespread English usage survived Britain's post-WWII decolonization,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: As the landscape of the New World awakened England's imagination, so did a new landscape of words-in the English of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible. This classic PBS program describes the spread of English to North America and explains how Shakespeare's prodigious vocabulary filled the language with startling new words, phrases, and constructions. Recording strong echoes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In the 19th century, English spread throughout the British Empire-but which English? This classic PBS program traces the roots of white Commonwealth English to Cockney, the language of London's working class. Explaining the influence of Cockney on modern, standardized speech, the program shows how, in fact, the accents of BBC English are gradually becoming modified by Cockney speech...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The Irish experience reflects two language traditions, English and Gaelic. This classic PBS program shows how English was first established in Ireland in the 17th century and how, in cases of violent cultural conflict, language can function as a weapon. Exploring the west of Ireland today, the program identifies traces of Irish Celtic culture, despite the historical decline of the Gaelic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Both westward expansion and 19th-century immigration affected the development of a uniquely American English. This classic PBS program tells the story of that burgeoning dialect, from the Revolutionary War to the 1920s. Beginning with the Declaration of Independence, the program depicts the determination of American radicals-dictionary author Noah Webster among them-to achieve linguistic as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Crystal, David
Summary: "The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 421 CRYCrystal, David
Summary: Explaining the nuts and bolts of grammar presents a special challenge, because--far more than is the case with spelling and punctuation--the subject is burdened with a centuries-old history of educational practice that many will recall as anything but glamorous. One of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, Crystal sets out to rid grammar of its undeserved reputation as a dry...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 425 CRYMoynahan, Brian
Summary: William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed as a saint and a man for all seasons, considered it his divine duty to pursue Tyndale. He did so with an obsessive ferocity that, in all probability, led to Tyndale's capture and death. The words that Tyndale wrote during his desperate exile--his New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.6 MOYFetherston, Drew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 624.194 FETHimekawa, Akira.
Summary: Link struggles to rescue Princess Zelda, who has been kidnapped by Shadow Link, while also trying to deal with the other versions of himself running wild in Hyrule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Landon, Margaret
Summary: The story of an English governess at the court of King Mongkut of Siam, in the mid-nineteenth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEONOWENS, ANNA LANBraun, Eric
Summary: Recounts the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC BRAMcCrum, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.9 MCCCrystal, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 427 CRYDurrell, Gerald
Summary: Consists of the popular classic "My Family and Other Animals" and its sequels, "Birds, Beasts and Relatives" and "The Garden of the Gods". This work is set on the enchanted island of Corfu in the 1930s, and tells the story of the eccentric English family who moved there. It also captures the beginnings of the author's lifelong love of animals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B DURRELL DURSummary: Melvyn Bragg begins the story of English in Holland, finding ancestral echoes in the Frisian dialect. What follows is a chapter on survival as the English language weathers Viking and Norman invasions, vying with and eventually absorbing rival tongues. Lively settings such as village pubs and markets bring home the lasting influence of Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and Old French. The connection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Went the day well? (1942): Based on the story of Graham Greene, this Ealing Studios wartime production tells the story of a quiet English village that has been infiltrated by disguised German soldiers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA THEBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Three versions of the Judgment of Solomon story illustrate the changes that have taken place in the English language across more than a millennium: from Aelfric's 10th-century account of how Solomon's wisdom reached to the truth, through Middle, to Early Modern and Modern English. At each stage, the grammar and vocabulary of the pieces are analyzed, as are the social assumptions of the writers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010