Damp squid
the English language laid bare
Butterfield, Jeremy
1951-
creator
text
bibliography
enk
New York
Oxford University Press
2009
monographic
eng
179 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
Jeremy Butterfield.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-174) and index.
English language
Etymology
English language
Word formation
English language
Usage
PE1575 .B88 2009
422 B J D
9780199574094 (pbk.)
2009024511
DLC
111208
20150408113955.0
15778775