Download or read book The Stories of English written by David Crystal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystal turns the history of the language on its head and provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies: in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the globe.