The history of Britain revealed : the shocking truth about the English language / M.J. Harper.
The history of Britain revealed : the shocking truth about the English language / M.J. Harper.
The history of Britain revealed : the shocking truth about the English language / M.J. Harper.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Icon, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N942/584
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English
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198 p. ; 21 cm.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Icon, 2006.
Edition
Expanded ed.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2006.
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In gloriously corrosive prose, M.J. Harper destroys the cherished national myths of the English, the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish and -- to demonstrate his lack of national bias -- the French. He shows that: -- Most of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary are wrong -- The whole of British place-name theory is misconceived -- Latin is not wh...
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The history of Britain revealed : the shocking truth about the English language / M.J. Harper.
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Includes index.
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N942/584
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74VKOal2p7bg
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ISBN
9781840467697 (hbk.)
184046769X (hbk.)
DDC
420.9 942
MMS ID
991022509359702626
