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The Life of Language: The fascinating ways words are born, live & die
The Life of Language The fascinating ways words are born live die
Author: Sol Steinmetz, Barbara Ann Kipfer
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, for...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375721137
ISBN-10: 0375721134
Publication Date: 7/11/2006
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Random House Reference
Book Type: Paperback
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