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Year:
1877
Short description:
Sweet's suggestion that native varieties of English would become mutually-unitelligble
Medium description:
Henry Sweet
[was this in his 'Handbook of Phonetics'?]
Tags:
history of English
pronunciation
Crystal, D. (1997). English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.134]
Jenkins, Jennifer (2000). The Phonology of English as an International Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.92]