A monster online dictionary of the rich colourful language we call slang... all from a British perspective, with new slang added every month. Now it is awailable OFFLINE in one archive, fully browsable. I downloaded it using TeleportPro, so that everyone could enjoy one of the best online resources of British slang information in the offline mode.
Read All About It!: A History of the British Newspaper
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This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society.
Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal.
The primary purposeof this volume is to make studying British history more interesting and enjoyable. It is to be realized in the threefold way: First, to give students an outline of British history; secondly, to put some flesh on the bare facts of the outline by the use of illustrative documents; thirdly, to explain a number of term connected with British history.
The Perfect and the Preterite in Contemporary and Earlier English
In this study the author discusses various theories that have been put forward to account for the choice between the present perfect and the preterite in expressions of past time in English. The distribution between the two verb forms is examined in a varied corpus consisting of more than 13,000 recorded verb forms, a little more than half of them from present-day English (British and American, spoken and written), the rest from earlier English all the way back to Old English. The analysis of the contemporary corpus is supplemented by elicitation test carried out with British and American informants.