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440 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780312428563
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Publication date: 29 September 2009
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AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual word...
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440 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780312428563
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Publication date: 29 September 2009
Description
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual word...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings