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Title: Words in Time and Place
Author : David Crystal
Release Date : January 18, 2014
Genre: Words & Language,Books,Reference,
Pages : * pages
Size : 2888 KB

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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.