Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy,    1870-1945. <br/><br/>
A history of modern colloquial English /    
by Henry Cecil Wyld ... 
 - 3d ed.,    with additions. 
 - Oxford :   B. Blackwell ,   1936. 
 - xviii, 433 p. ;    23 cm. 
<br/><br/>  "This book is mainly concerned with English as it has been spoken du ring the last four or five centuries."--Introd., p. 1. 
<br/><br/>Alphabetical list of sources, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (p. [xi]-xv)--Remarks on phonetic notation.--Table of phonetic symbols used in this book.--Introductory.--Dialect types in Middle English and thei r survival in the modern period.--The English of the fifteenth century. --The English language from Henry VIII to James I.--The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.--The history of English pronunciation in the mod ern period; the vowels in stressed syllables.--The vowels of unstressed syllables.--Changes in consonantal sounds.--Notes on inflexions.--Coll oquial idiom.--Appendices.--Supplementary. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>39-010900 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language --History.------<br/>English language --Phonology.------<br/>English language --Pronunciation.------
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>420.9 WYL