Words in Time and Place Words in Time and Place

Words in Time and Place

Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

David Crystal
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Publisher Description

How has the English language developed over time? How have words entered the English language, or changed their meaning? David Crystal takes us on a wonderful tour through the origins and evolution of 15 groups of words, from dying to spacecraft. His source is the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.

GENRE
Reference
RELEASED
2014
18 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SIZE
2.9
MB

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