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The Story Of English In 100 Words (2012)

by David Crystal(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1250003466 (ISBN13: 9781250003461)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: Very clever. Crystal uses each word as a starting point for a brief discussion on the ways our language has changed and developed over the centuries, reminding us all of the idiocy of such movements as "language reform", and of the joy we should feel every time we piece together a sentence. We're not just using a language. We're working with a breathing mass of orphans, stragglers, immigrants, and naturalised citizens from so many languages and cultures, now working together in an often unstable and cacophonic new world. And I love it.
review 2: english is a vacuum cleaner of language drawing in others, n as posesive, meade, merry go up snuff, merry up vs hook, english first then england, french names for food, lea grass meadow, anglo saxon, dame, leigh, shakes... morepeare the conversion expert, gaol, count, grope cuntlane, gaggle of geese and women, mass of priests, clutch of mechanics, hord of prostitutes, bible is largest influence, unyoung vs old, to boldly go. less

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