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308 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674673588
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 October 1998
Description
"Cats is 'dogs, ' and rabbits is 'dogs, ' and so's parrots; but this ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the wo...
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308 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674673588
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 October 1998
Description
"Cats is 'dogs, ' and rabbits is 'dogs, ' and so's parrots; but this ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the wo...