MDS 420.97
Wording: Language English & Old English languages English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) History, geographic treatment, biography North America
Dewmoji: ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐งโณ?
0 Computer science, information & general works 252,013 โน๏ธ | 1 Philosophy and Psychology 270,129 🧠 | 2 Religion 681,242 ๐ | 3 Social sciences 1,328,382 ๐ซ | 4 Language 209,883 ๐ฌ | 5 Natural sciences & mathematics 431,918 ๐ฌ | 6 Technology 940,635 ๐ก | 7 Arts & recreation 1,031,850 ๐จ | 8 Literature & rhetoric 1,436,736 ๐ | 9 History & geography 837,760 ๐บ๏ธ |
40 Language 13,557 ๐ฌ | 41 Linguistics 21,813 ๐ท | 42 English & Old English languages 75,967 ๐ฌ๐ง | 43 German & related languages 17,305 ๐ฉ๐ช | 44 French & related languages 13,576 ๐ซ๐ท | 45 Italian, Romanian & related languages 6,561 ๐ฎ๐น | 46 Spanish, Portuguese, Galician 16,763 ๐ช๐ธ | 47 Latin & Italic languages 4,908 ๐ | 48 Classical Greek and related Hellenic languages 4,822 ๐ฌ๐ท | 49 Other languages 34,611 ๐จ |
420 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) 5,315 ๐ฌ๐ง | 421 Writing system, phonology, phonetics of standard English 2,995 | 422 Etymology of standard English 982 | 423 Dictionaries of standard English 6,185 ๐ | 424 [Formerly: Synonyms and Homonyms] 152 | 425 Grammar of standard English 2,357 | 426 [Formerly: English Prosody] 200 | 427 Historical and geographic variations, modern nongeographic variations of English 2,526 ๐ | 428 Standard English usage (Prescriptive linguistics) 54,932 ๐ซ | 429 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) 323 แตน |
420.0 English 25 | 420.1 Philosophy and theory 229 | 420.2 Miscellany 93 | 420.3 Encyclopedias and concordances 15 | 420.4 Special topics of subdivisions of individual languages and language families 61 | 420.5 Serial publications 40 | 420.6 Organizations and management 9 | 420.7 Education, research, related topics 528 | 420.8 Groups of people 45 | 420.9 History, geographic treatment, biography 429 โณ |
420.90 by period 19 | 420.91 Areas, regions, places in general; oceans and seas 2 | 420.92 Biography 10 | 420.93 Ancient world 1 | 420.94 Europe 9 | 420.95 Asia 21 | 420.96 Africa 13 | 420.97 North America 24 | 420.98 | 420.99 Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica, extraterrestrial worlds 5 |
420.970 | 420.971 Canada 2 | 420.972 Middle America; Mexico 2 | 420.973 United States 19 | 420.974 Northeastern United States 1 | 420.975 | 420.976 | 420.977 | 420.978 | 420.979 |
Selected Works under MDS 420.97 (24)
- Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
- The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States {abridged} by H. L. Mencken
- Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English by John McWhorter
- Democratic Eloquence: The Fight for Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America by Kenneth Cmiel
- Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky
- American English by Albert H. Marckwardt
- Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language by Dennis E. Baron
- Language in America by Charlton Grant Laird
- Milestones in the History of English in America (Publication of the American Dialect Society, No. 86) by Allen Walker Read
- Words Unchained: Language and Revolution in Grenada by Chris Searle
- The Politics of American English, 1776-1850 by David Simpson
- Frequency analysis of English usage : lexicon and grammar by W. Nelson Francis
- In defence of plain English : the decline and fall of literacy in Canada by Victoria Branden
- Attitudes Toward English Usage: The History of War of Words by Edward Finegan
- Toward a social history of American English by J. L. Dillard
- Some Systems of Substitution Correlations in Modern American English by Ruth Crymes
- Joseph Emerson Worcester: A Distinguished and Gracious New England Lexicographer by Matthew Higgins
- Englishes in Contact: Anglophone Caribbean Students in an Urban College (Written Language) by Shondel J. Nero
- The English language in Nova Scotia: Essays on past and present developments in English across the province by Lilian Falk
- Focus on the USA by Edgar W. Schneider
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