[PDF.76us] Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English

Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English

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 | #1841469 in Books |  2015-06-02 |  2015-06-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.80 x1.10 x9.60l,2.20 | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||5 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| much too expensive|By Michael N. Marcus|>>This outstanding book . . . will appeal to a wide general public<< I'd love to have this book -- but I don't have $56.86 worth of love. The book is priced for libraries, not the general public. Even the $37.49 Kindle edition is absurdly overpriced.

The publisher is arrogant, ignorant and short-sighted. Maybe in a few months| ||"Durkin achieves his goal of reaching "the reader who perseveres" and demonstrates that etymologies are neither certain nor stale. It is refreshing to read a history of the English language from such a focused perspective, and Durkin is clearly passionate abo

The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian to, among others, Hebrew, Maori, Malay, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, and Yiddish. He shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been. The long documented history of English includes contact with lan...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English   |  Philip Durkin. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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