May We Borrow Your Language?
How English Steals Words From All Over the World
$31.50
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2017
Summary
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman French; from the Vikings’ Old Scandinavian to Persian, Arawak, Cantonese, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Inuit and Erdu – amongst a host of others – we have enriched our modern language with such words as tulip, slogan, doolally, avocado, moccasin, ketchup and ukule…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786694553 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786694557 |
| Author: | Mr Philip Gooden |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Head of Zeus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 124mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Written with wit and aplomb as he reveals the history and details on words as diverse as cwen, lust, delphinan and bathos… It is a worthy addition for anyone with an etymological collection of books, and if you like Mark Forsyth this is right up your street’ – Half Man, Half Book Blog
Engrossing… hugely informative and fun’ * Nudge Book *
Mr Philip Gooden
Philip Gooden writes books about language as well as historical crime novels. The former include Who’s Whose? A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, The Story of English, and (as co-author) Idiomantics and The Word at War.
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