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 | #906335 in Books |  2009-09-29 |  2009-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x1.00 x5.50l,.80 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Seafaring Adventure into the History of the English Language|By Elvin Ortiz|This text is a thorough and comprehensive history of the English language. Comprised of sixteen chapters, Hitchings compartmentalizes the development of the English language in important historical periods of England (and later the U.S.), and in languages that have made important contributions to Engl|From The New Yorker|This historical tour of the English lexicon considers words as etymological �fossils of past dreams and traumas,� revealing the preoccupations of the ages that produced them. The nineteenth

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The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. Henry Hitchings narrates the story from the Norman Conquest to the present d...

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