Review published In:
English World-WideVol. 13:2 (1992) ► pp.299–302
Book review
. Linguistic Variation and Change. On the historical sociolin-guistics of English.. [Language in Society, 19]. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. xii + 243 pp.
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