The story of English in 100 words /David Crystal

By:

Crystal, David

Material type:

TextPublication details: London : Profile Books, 2012.Description: 260 p.: ill.; 20 cmISBN:

9781846684289

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LOC classification:

PE 1075 \b .C79 2012

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
English Language & Literature Collection	Albukhary International University LEVEL 3	PE 1075 .C79 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1100031304

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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.

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