ENGLISH

The Story of English in 100 Hundred Words

By David , Crystal

Book information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2011
ISBN
9781846684272, 9781847654595, 1846684277
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4370410 bytes)
Pages
260 Seiten : Illustrationen\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Englisch;English language;English language--Histor

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 ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.

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