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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