TY - BOOK AU - Crystal,David TI - The stories of English SN - 0141015934 PY - 2005/// CY - Penguin PB - Suffolk KW - English language KW - Variation KW - sears KW - Diallects KW - History N2 - Traces the history of the English language, discussing how it envolved from a language used by only a few thousand Anglo-Saxons into one used by more than a quarter of the human race in the modern world ER -