David Crystal

Broschiertes Buch

The Story of English in 100 Words

Beschreibung

Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to advanced ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), the author takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.

Autor

David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bangor. His many books range from clinical linguistics to the liturgy and Shakespeare. He is the author of Making a Point, The Story of English in 100 Words and Spell It Out: The Singular History of English Spelling, both published by Profile. His Stories of English is a Penguin Classic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 131mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781846684289
• ISBN-10: 1846684285
• Artikelnr.: 35027317

Rezensionen

Crystal's book is full of distractions and delights Daily Express