Using English Words
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Using English Words examines the impact that the life histories of people have on their vocabulary. Its starting point is the taken-for-granted fact that the vocabulary of English falls into two very different sections. Randolph Quirk mentions this striking incompatibility between the Anglo- Saxon and the Latinate elements in English: "the familiar homely-sounding and typically very short words" that we learn very early in life and use for most everyday...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0792337115
ISBN13:9780792337119
Release Date:March 1996
Publisher:Springer
Length:226 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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