The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & DieRandom House Reference, 2006 - 388 páginas If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, business, technology, and other forces of globalization expand and enrich the English language, forming thousands of new words every year. In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps. · A word lover’s guide to etymology, written in a fun, informal, and accessible style · An excellent resource for vocabulary building; a word's root helps readers understand its meaning · Beautifully packaged paperback with French flaps |
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Smallness Is Sometimes Cute | 73 |
Word History Misunderstood | 89 |
PART 4 | 99 |
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The Life of Language: The fascinating ways words are born, live & die Sol Steinmetz,Barbara Ann Kipfer Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
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abbreviations acronym added to nouns added to verbs adjectives alteration animal baby talk back-formation became become blend blog borrowed called century CHAPTER clipped forms CLIPPING OR SHORTENING coinages coined combining form common words compounds contractions created cyber describe diminutive doublets dysphemism e-mail editor English language English words enthuse entries eponyms etymology euphemisms example folk etymology foreign functional shift German googol Greek guage Humpty invented jargon Latin linguists lish literally loanwords look meant metaphor Middle English mini modern MODIFICATION neologisms nonce word nonsense words noun Old English Old French onym origin person phishing phrasal verbs political popular portmanteau words prefixes and suffixes reduplication referring retronyms root Safire SEMANTIC CHANGE sense sentence slang someone sound Spanish speakers speech spelling suffix synonym term things tion usage usually variant vocabulary Webster's William Safire word formation word or phrase word's words formed writing
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