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Guzhao67 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

The stories of english vs the story of english

Hi: I found two books dealing with the development of English with different titles: The Story of English vs The Stories of English. What's the difference between the single and plural forms of "story"? Linguistically speaking, which one covers more filed of discussion? thank you.
  

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There is no way of judging the contents by those titles. They are just book titles and bear no necessary semantic relation to each other.

  • There is no way of judging the contents by those titles.
  • They are just book titles and bear no necessary semantic relation to each other.
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There is no way of judging the contents by those titles. They are just book titles and bear no necessary semantic relation to each other.
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Are you referring to:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gentry-Stories-Adam-Nicolson/dp/0007335490/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332082058&sr=1-2

Quite different from just "Stories of the English"!

If it is not that, who is

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