This book documents changes to the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of Standard English over the past century.

Christian Mair is Chair in English Linguistics at the Universität Freiburg, Germany.

1. Setting the scene; 2. Ongoing language change: problems of detection and verification; 3. Lexical change in twentieth-century English; 4. Grammatical changes in twentieth-century English; 5. Pronunciation; 6. Language change in context: changing communicative and discourse norms in twentieth-century English; 7. Conclusion.