EAN: 9781846684289

THE STORY OF ENGLISH IN 100 WORDS - DAVID CRYST...

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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