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The Story of English in 100 Words
David Crystal
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Description for The Story of English in 100 Words
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846684289
SKU
V9781846684289
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About David Crystal
David Crystal is the foremost expert on English, and honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written many books and published articles in fields ranging from forensic linguistics and ELT to the liturgy and Shakespeare.
Reviews for The Story of English in 100 Words
Crystal's book is full of distractions and delights
Daily Express
One of [Crystal's] best ... it builds gradually into a kind of linguistic tapestry, packed with abstruse information, wonderfully readable
Spectator
If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide
The Age, Australia
Delicious revelations ... Crystal ... Read more
Daily Express
One of [Crystal's] best ... it builds gradually into a kind of linguistic tapestry, packed with abstruse information, wonderfully readable
Spectator
If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide
The Age, Australia
Delicious revelations ... Crystal ... Read more