01437cam a2200301 a 4500 15778775 OSt 20150408113955.0 111208s2009 enk b 001 0 eng 2009024511 9780199574094 (pbk.) DLC MU DLC pcc PE1575 .B88 2009 422 B J D 21 Butterfield, Jeremy, 1951- 7318 Damp squid : the English language laid bare / Jeremy Butterfield. New York : Oxford University Press ; 2009. 179 p. ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-174) and index. A sea change: the corpus -- Size matters: how many words? -- Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English: where do words come from? -- Beware of heard: why spelling wobbles -- Which is to be master? meaning in context -- Words of a feather: word groupings -- Cats and dogs: idiomatic phrases -- Grammar that can govern even kings: what do we mean by grammar? -- Style wars: usages people hate. English language Etymology. 6804 English language Word formation. 7319 English language Usage. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc DVD 19437 253937 0 2013-03-10 0 0 422 B J D n 1 2011-12-08 IC 00101053 IC 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 422 B J D n 2 2011-12-08 IC 00101054 IC 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0