The story of English in 100 words /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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).