The story of English in 100 words /

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Main Author: Crystal, David, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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245 1 4 |a The story of English in 100 words /  |c David Crystal. 
250 |a 1st U.S. ed. 
260 |a New York :  |b St. Martin's Press,  |c 2012. 
300 |a xxi, 260 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 22 cm. 
500 |a Originally published: Profile Books, LTD : Great Britain. 
500 |a Includes index. 
505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: 1.Roe -- the first word (5th century) -- 2.Lea -- naming places (8th century) -- 3.And -- an early abbreviation (8th century) -- 4.Loaf -- an unexpected origin (9th century) -- 5.Out -- changing grammar (9th century) -- 6.Street -- a Latin loan (9th century) -- 7.Mead -- a window into history (9th century) -- 8.Merry -- a dialect survivor (9th century) -- 9.Riddle -- playing with language (10th century) -- 10.What -- an early exclamation (10th century) -- 11.Bone-house -- a word-painting (10th century) -- 12.Brock -- a Celtic arrival (10th century) -- 13.English -- the language named (10th century) -- 14.Bridegroom -- a popular etymology (11th century) -- 15.Arse -- an impolite word (11th century) -- 16.Swain -- a poetic expression (12th century) -- 17.Pork -- an elegant word (13th century) -- 18.Chattels -- a legal word (13th century) -- 19.Dame -- a form of address (13th century) -- 20.Skirt -- a word doublet (13th century) -- 21.Jail -- competing words (13th century) -- 22.Take away -- a phrasal verb (13th century) -- 23.Cuckoo -- a sound-symbolic word (13th century) -- 24.Cunt -- a taboo word (13th century) -- 25.Wicked -- a radical alteration (13th century) -- 26.Wee -- a Scottish contribution (14th century) -- 27.Grammar -- a surprising link (14th century) -- 28.Valentine -- first name into word (14th century) -- 29.Egg -- a dialect choice (14th century) -- 30.Royal -- word triplets (14th century) -- 31.Money -- a productive idiom (14th century) -- 32.Music -- a spelling in evolution (14th century) -- 33.Taffeta -- an early trade word (14th century) -- 34.Information(s) -- (un)countable nouns (14th century) -- 35.Gaggle -- a collective noun (15th century) -- 36.Doable -- a mixing of languages (15th century) -- 37.Matrix -- a word from Tyndale (16th century) -- 38.Alphabet -- talking about writing (16th century) -- 39.Potato -- a European import (16th century) -- 40.Debt -- a spelling reform (16th century) -- 41.Ink-horn -- a classical flood (16th century) -- 42.Dialect -- regional variation (16th century) -- 43.Bodgery -- word-coiners (16th century) -- 44.Undeaf -- a word from Shakespeare (16th century) -- 45.Skunk -- an early Americanism (17th century) -- 46.Shibboleth -- a word from King James (17th century) -- 47.Bloody -- an emerging swear-word (17th century) -- 48.Lakh -- a word from India (17th century) -- 49.Fopdoodle -- a lost word (17th century) -- 50.Billion -- a confusing ambiguity (17th century) -- 51.Yogurt -- a choice of spelling (17th century) -- 52.Gazette -- a taste of journalese (17th century) -- 53.Tea -- a social word (17th century) -- 54.Disinterested -- a confusible (17th century) -- 55.Polite -- a matter of manners (17th century) -- 56.Dilly-dally -- a reduplicating word (17th century) -- 57.Rep -- a clipping (17th century) -- 58.Americanism -- a new nation (18th century) -- 59.Edit -- a back-formation (18th century) -- 60.Species -- classifying things (18th century) -- 61.Ain't -- right and wrong (18th century) -- 62.Trek -- a word from Africa (19th century) -- 63.Hello -- progress through technology (19th century) -- 64.Dragsman -- thieves' cant (19th century) -- 65.Lunch -- U or non-U (19th century) -- 66.Dude -- a cool usage (19th century) -- 67.Brunch -- a portmanteau word (19th century) -- 68.Dinkum -- a word from Australia (19th century) -- 69.Mipela -- pidgin English (19th century) -- 70.Schmooze -- a Yiddishism (19th century) -- 71.OK -- debatable origins (19th century) -- 72.Ology -- suffix into word (19th century) -- 73.Y'all -- a new pronoun (19th century) -- 74.Speech-craft -- an Anglo-Saxonism (19th century) -- 75.DNA -- scientific terminology (20th century) -- 76.Garage -- a pronunciation problem (20th century) -- 77.Escalator -- word into name into word (20th century) -- 78.Robot -- a global journey (20th century) -- 79.UFO -- alternative forms (20th century) -- 80.Watergate -- place-name into word (20th century) -- 81.Doublespeak -- weasel words (20th century) -- 82.Doobry -- useful nonsense (20th century) -- 83.Blurb -- a moment of arrival (20th century) -- 84.Strine -- a comic effect (20th century) -- 85.Alzheimer's -- surname into word (20th century) -- 86.Grand -- money slang (20th century) -- 87.Mega -- prefix into word (20th century) -- 88.Gotcha -- a non-standard spelling (20th century) -- 89.PC -- being politically correct (20th century) -- 90.Bagonise -- a nonce-word (20th century) -- 91.Webzine -- an internet compound (20th century) -- 92.App -- a killer abb (20th century) -- 93.Cherry-picking -- corporate speak (20th century) -- 94.LOL -- netspeak (20th century) -- 95.Jazz -- word of the century (20th century) -- 96.Sudoku -- a modern loan (21st century) -- 97.Muggle -- a fiction word (21st century) -- 98.Chillax -- a fashionable blend (21st century) -- 99.Unfriend -- a new age (21st century) -- 100.Twittersphere -- future directions? (21st century). 
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