Inventing English. A Portable History of the Language

introductionFinding English, Finding Us
chapter 1.Caedmon Learns to Sing
chapter 2.From Beowulf to Wulfstan
chapter 3.In This Year
chapter 4.From Kingdom to Realm
chapter 5.Lord of This Langage
chapter 6.I Is as Ille a Millere as Are Ye
chapter 7.The Great Vowel Shift and theChanging Character of English
chapter 8.Chancery, Caxton, and theMaking of English Prose
chapter 9.I Do, I Will
chapter 10.A Universal Hubbub Wild
chapter 11.Visible Speech
chapter 12.A Harmless Drudge
chapter 13.Horrid, Hooting Stanzas
chapter 14.Antses in the Sugar
chapter15.Hello, Dude
chapter 16.Ready for the Funk
chapter 17.Pioneers Through an Untrodden Forest
chapter 18.Listening to Private Ryan
chapter 19.He Speaks in Your Voice
appendix English Sounds and Their Representation
glossary
references and further reading
acknowledgments
index