Language attitudes

Here's whit's bøn seid: it canna be a language fir sküls an education fur:

(1) hit's unstable an it cheinges, an ower unregulatit, wi nae richt rules fir grammar, spelleen an vocabulary;

(2) de'r ower muckle variation atween da districts;

(3) hit's no proper but slangy an rude;

(4) hit døsna hae da technical terminology it needs;

(5) hit's no a international language an isna understød onywye idder, so it wid hadd back students an scholars apø da international stage.

Soond familiar? Weel, dis wis da erguments firnenst da English language ower an abün Latin, Greek an French. Bit as William Tyndale pat it in 1528

They will saye it can not be translated in to oure tonge it is so rude. It is not so rude as they are false lyers

Twartree references:

Algeo, John. 2010. The origins and development of the English language. 6t ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.

Barber, Charler, Beal, Joan A. & Philip A. Shaw. 2009. The English language. A historical introduction. 2nt edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Barber, Charles. 1997. Early Modern English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (esp. Ch2: Attitudes to English)

Baugh, Albert C. & Thomas Cable. 2002. A history of the English language. 5t edn. London: Routledge.