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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ("roe," in case you are wondering). Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ("loaf") to cutting edge
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 573 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive reference offers a unique experience of the English language in all its richness and diversity.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xiv, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and traveler's observations about the author's encounters with language and its users throughout the English-speaking world.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of English spelling through chapters that cover such topics as the introduction of the Roman alphabet, each letter's origins, and the development of long and short vowels.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
vii, 327 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
How can a work published in 1611 have had such a lasting influence on the language? To answer this question, Crystal offers fascinating discussions of phrases such as "The skin of one's teeth" or "Out of the mouth of babes, " tracing how these memorable lines have found independent life in the work of poets, playwrights, novelists, politicians, and journalists, and how more recently they have been taken up with enthusiasm by advertisers, Hollywood,...
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