Words in Time and Place by David Crystal

Words in Time and Place

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  • Genre Words & Language
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
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  • Size 2.75 MB
  • Length 305 Pages

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How has the English language developed over time? How have words entered the English language, or changed their meaning? David Crystal takes us on a wonderful tour through the origins and evolution of 15 groups of words, from dying to spacecraft. His source is the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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