deals with things like an actor who said that back in the 1960s no one said "gonna" and "shoulda".Off goes Crystal to 1) the Oxford English Dictionary, and finds it says the first recorded use of "gonna" was 1913; 2) Joseph Wright's Dialect Dictionary, which says 1806; 3) The Merry Wives of Windsor, Quarto edition, 1602, "I should ha borne . . .".
from Michael Rosen: The Guardian: David Crystal: champion of the English language
~~~~~~~~~~~
No comments :
Post a Comment