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Mutt Contay Saw : About French (and English) in New England

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Title

Mutt Contay Saw : About French (and English) in New England

Creator

Ouellette, Allen J.

Description

From the author: "In New England, as elsewhere in the United States, colleges and universities offer degrees in languages, but few make courses in the history of those languages mandatory. Aside from the usual MA theses and Ph.d. dissertations - almost all of them stiffly written attempts to isolate academically 'workable' and degree-granting minutia - there is very little in print for the students of language that attempts to explain how contemporary languages in America have been and continue to be affected by their rubbing of elbows....
'Mutt Contay Saw' is about French and what has happened to it in New England. But it's also about English. It's entirely in English, even the French pronunciations are rendered in English. There's a brief history tracing the development of English."

Date

2005

Language

en; fr

Type

Book

Identifier

Coverage

21st century; New England

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