Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vi
4. Preface ix
5. And is it English? (1996) 1
6. The origins and development of emigrant Englishes (1996) 19
7. Relic words as tools for linguistic geography (1996) 39
8. Linguistic jokes based on dialect divergence (1997) 46
9. Text types and the history of Scots (1997) 55
10. Celtic Englishes? (1997) 78
11. English — The Language of a new nation. The present-day linguistic situation of South Africa (1996) 101
12. Nigerian English: broken, pidgin, creole and regional standard? (1997) 119
13. Recent dictionaries of varieties of English (1997) 152
14. The typology of dictionaries of English-based pidgins and creoles (1996) 187
15. Documentation: EWL, VEAW, EWW (1979/80) 204
16. References 228
17. Indexes 248