Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1846684285
ISBN-13
9781846684289
Edition
Main
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint
Profile Books Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 5th, 2012
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
204 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 19.70 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Language: history & general works
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Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to advanced ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), the author takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.
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.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).
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