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Walkers correct pronunciation 1791 is interesting to look at and practice pronouncing the words how he has suggested for example try: ‘Badger’ pronounced ‘bad.jur’. http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126750.html

Sir Arthur’s Conan Doyle’s 1904 ‘the adventure of the missing three quarter’ a Sherlock Holmes story is interesting to look at as you can see where he has crossed out certain choices of Lexis and replaced them with something different.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126860.html

Wanted poster for Hitler 1939 is very good for graphology but also the Lexical choices they used to portray him as the enemy.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126870.html

Captain Scott’s last diary entry 27^th March 1912 http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126864.html

His famous last words were ‘For God’s sake look after our people.’ The imperative sentence really highlights the severity of the situation that they crew are weak and supplies have run out. However today the phrase ‘For God’s sake’ is used much more loosely and used more today as a ‘FFS’  (For fuck sake) which suggests it has undergone weakening.  I believe people use this term, for example, when they spill a drink on themselves, which compared to Captain Scott’s situation can be seen as very minor. From a prescriptive point of view Jean Aicheson’s ‘Infectious Disease’ theory suggests hearing bad language will get other people to use bad language. Maybe someone used ‘For God’s sake’ for a minor incident one day, and over time more and more people have started using it for little annoying things that happen to them.

The possessive pronoun ‘our’ could have been used to show the captain knew the crew were under his guidance and supervision and maybe he understands his responsibility and instead of perhaps using the personal pronoun ‘us’ for example ‘look after us’ he used ‘our’ which I believe is still used today to emphasise companionship.