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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.
TITLE: The Story of English in 100 Words
AUTHOR: David Crystal
SKU: 9781846684289
PUBLISHER: Profile Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 05/07/2012
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 288
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
WEIGHT: 243 gr