Story of English in 100 Words
$24.95
Subject: Unabridged Audio - History
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date Published: 12-2011
ISBN: 144586519X | EAN: 9781445865195
BasicBinding: Compact Disc
Features: Unabridged, Price on Product
Annotation: Britain's leading linguistics expert, David Crystal, reads his own eye-opening and highly entertaining tour of the English language through the ages.
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.
Britain's leading linguistics expert, David Crystal, reads his own eye-opening and highly entertaining tour of the English language through the ages.
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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