Discovering Words
Written by Julian Walker
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $13.95
For 1500 years English has built new words or taken them from other languages and changed their form and often their meaning to make them the words we use today. When we explore the journeys, arrivals and changes of these words, they present us with some extraordinary stories. School for example...
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The Life of Language
The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die
Written by Sol Steinmetz and Barbara Ann Kipfer
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $16.95
If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock.
The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, business, technology, and other forces of globalization expand and...
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