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The story of English in 100 words / David Crystal

Author
Crystal, David, 1941-
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Description
xxi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Roe - the first word (5th century) -- 2.Lea - naming places (8th century) -- 3.And - an early abbreviation (8th century) -- 4.Loaf - an unexpected origin (9th century) -- 5.Out - changing grammar (9th century) -- 6.Street - a Latin loan (9th century) -- 7.Mead - a window into history (9th century) -- 8.Merry - a dialect survivor (9th century) -- 9.Riddle - playing with language (10th century) -- 10.What - an early exclamation (10th century) -- 11.Bone-house - a word-painting (10th century) -- 12.Brock - a Celtic arrival (10th century) -- 13.English - the language named (10th century) -- 14.Bridegroom - a popular etymology (11th century) -- 15.Arse - an impolite word (11th century) -- 16.Swain - a poetic expression (12th century) -- 17.Pork - an elegant word (13th century) -- 18.Chattels - a legal word (13th century) -- 19.Dame - a form of address (13th century) -- 20.Skirt - a word doublet (13th century) -- 21.Jail - competing words (13th century) -- 22.Take away - a phrasal verb (13th century) -- 23.Cuckoo - a sound-symbolic word (13th century) -- 24.Cunt - a taboo word (13th century) -- 25.Wicked - a radical alteration (13th century) -- 26.Wee - a Scottish contribution (14th century) -- 27.Grammar - a surprising link (14th century) -- 28.Valentine - first name into word (14th century) -- 29.Egg - a dialect choice (14th century) -- 30.Royal - word triplets (14th century) -- 31.Money - a productive idiom (14th century) -- 32.Music - a spelling in evolution (14th century) -- 33.Taffeta - an early trade word (14th century) -- 34.Information(s) - (un)countable nouns (14th century) -- 35.Gaggle - a collective noun (15th century) -- 36.Doable - a mixing of languages (15th century) -- 37.Matrix - a word from Tyndale (16th century) -- 38.Alphabet - talking about writing (16th century) -- 39.Potato - a European import (16th century) -- 40.Debt - a spelling reform (16th century) -- 41.Ink-horn - a classical flood (16th century) -- 42.Dialect - regional variation (16th century) -- 43.Bodgery - word-coiners (16th century) -- 44.Undeaf - a word from Shakespeare (16th century) -- 45.Skunk - an early Americanism (17th century) -- 46.Shibboleth - a word from King James (17th century) -- 47.Bloody - an emerging swear-word (17th century) -- 48.Lakh - a word from India (17th century) -- 49.Fopdoodle - a lost word (17th century) -- 50.Billion - a confusing ambiguity (17th century) -- 51.Yogurt - a choice of spelling (17th century) -- 52.Gazette - a taste of journalese (17th century) -- 53.Tea - a social word (17th century) -- 54.Disinterested - a confusible (17th century) -- 55.Polite - a matter of manners (17th century) -- 56.Dilly-dally - a reduplicating word (17th century) -- 57.Rep - a clipping (17th century) -- 58.Americanism - a new nation (18th century) -- 59.Edit - a back-formation (18th century) -- 60.Species - classifying things (18th century) -- 61.Ain't - right and wrong (18th century) -- 62.Trek - a word from Africa (19th century) -- 63.Hello - progress through technology (19th century) -- 64.Dragsman - thieves' cant (19th century) -- 65.Lunch - U or non-U (19th century) -- 66.Dude - a cool usage (19th century) -- 67.Brunch - a portmanteau word (19th century) -- 68.Dinkum - a word from Australia (19th century) -- 69.Mipela - pidgin English (19th century) -- 70.Schmooze - a Yiddishism (19th century) -- 71.OK - debatable origins (19th century) -- 72.Ology - suffix into word (19th century) -- 73.Y'all - a new pronoun (19th century) -- 74.Speech-craft - an Anglo-Saxonism (19th century) -- 75.DNA - scientific terminology (20th century) -- 76.Garage - a pronunciation problem (20th century) -- 77.Escalator - word into name into word (20th century) -- 78.Robot - a global journey (20th century) -- 79.UFO - alternative forms (20th century) -- 80.Watergate - place-name into word (20th century) -- 81.Doublespeak - weasel words (20th century) -- 82.Doobry - useful nonsense (20th century) -- 83.Blurb - a moment of arrival (20th century) -- 84.Strine - a comic effect (20th century) -- 85.Alzheimer's - surname into word (20th century) -- 86.Grand - money slang (20th century) -- 87.Mega - prefix into word (20th century) -- 88.Gotcha - a non-standard spelling (20th century) -- 89.PC - being politically correct (20th century) -- 90.Bagonise - a nonce-word (20th century) -- 91.Webzine - an internet compound (20th century) -- 92.App - a killer abb (20th century) -- 93.Cherry-picking - corporate speak (20th century) -- 94.LOL - netspeak (20th century) -- 95.Jazz - word of the century (20th century) -- 96.Sudoku - a modern loan (21st century) -- 97.Muggle - a fiction word (21st century) -- 98.Chillax - a fashionable blend (21st century) -- 99.Unfriend - a new age (21st century) -- 100.Twittersphere - future directions? (21st century).
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ISBN
9781250003461 (hardcover)
1250003466 (hardcover)
9781466805088 (e-book)
1466805080 (e-book)
Note
Originally published: Profile Books, LTD : Great Britain.
Includes index.
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