The Evolution of ‘Proper’ English, From Shakespeare to ‘South Park’

By Jack Lynch

Illustrated. 326 pages, Walker & Company. $26.

“All the signs point to a fundamentally reconfigured world,” he writes, “in which what we now think of as the English-speaking world will eventually lose its effective control of the English language.”

Jack Lynch

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/books/01book.html?ref=books