Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words Are Born, Live and Die. Sol Steinmetz, Barbara Ann Kipfer

Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words Are Born, Live and Die



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Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words Are Born, Live and Die Sol Steinmetz, Barbara Ann Kipfer ebook
Publisher: Diversified Publishing
Page: 400
ISBN: 9780307496461


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 ...

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