Blooming English

English is the most creative, changeable and imaginative of languages. Some words are invented to meet temporary needs and are quickly discarded; others carry meanings hundreds of years old.
ISBN: 9780521548328
Page: 252
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2004
Format: Book
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: English

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Stock: 1-10 copies

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Language fascinates us, and we spend a lot of time playing with it, concocting everything from puns, riddles and secret languages to wonderful prose and poetry. We also worry about it a great deal, looking up and checking words in dictionaries and usageguides, occasionally arguing about definitions. This book celebrates our capacity to play with language, as well as examining the ways we use it: in slang and jargon, swearing, speaking the unspeakable, or concealing unpleasant or inconvenient facts.

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