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Language change: Right in our own backyard  
  
550   08:26 صباحاً   date: 2024-01-10
Author : P. John McWhorter
Book or Source : The Story of Human Language
Page and Part : 32-7


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Language change: Right in our own backyard

A. It is plain that language change turned Old English into Modern English. But because Old English and Middle English are so far from us in time, there is a temptation to tacitly sense language change as an “exotic” phenomenon, more typical of the past than our present-day lives.

 

B. One way to see that language change is a living reality—in fact, the very nature of speaking—is to look at changes in English more recent than this. English has changed a great deal even in the period when we recognize it as the language we speak.