The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death by Anne Curzan

The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death

The Great Courses

Anne Curzan

1 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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Open the Oxford English Dictionary and you’ll find dead words such as “wittol” and distinctly contemporary words such as “ginormous” and “multislacking.” In addition to looking at the lifespan of words from birth to death, this lecture also consid...

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