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Eighteenth Century English in Nova Scotia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

M. H. Scargill
M. H. Scargill*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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Extract

The Original Minutes of His Majesty’s Council at Annapolis Royal, 1720–1739 show some interesting examples of English. As is to be expected, the English used corresponds closely with late seventeenth and early eighteenth century British English and with American English of New England records or the same periods. The British English documents ‘with which these Minutes have most in common are the Wentworth Papers, 1705-1739 and the Verney Letters, 1696-1717.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 2 , Issue R1 , March 1956 , pp. 3
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1956

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References

Nuva Scotia Archives III, Halitax, 1908, H C Wy z History of Modern Colloqutal English, Oxford, 1953; Krapp, G. P.. The English Language in America, Vol. II, New York, 1925.Google Scholar