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Movers and Shakers John Ayto

Movers and Shakers By John Ayto

Movers and Shakers by John Ayto


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Gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. This work features an introductory essay that identifies the main historical, cultural, and scientific currents, and shows how they contributed new vocabulary to the language.

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Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words That Shaped Our Age by John Ayto

Take a fascinating journey from cornflakes (1907) to spam (1994). This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto's critically acclaimed Twentieth Century Words, and gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. For each decade, an introductory essay identifies the main historical, cultural, and scientific currents, and shows how they contributed new vocabulary to the language. An A-Z listing of words which were first recorded in that decade follows, selected for their resonance to today's world. Each word is fully described and its origins explained. A final section looks at vocabulary developments of the new millennium. Full of surprises, this book is at once a glimpse of the past and a handbook for today.

Table of Contents

1. The 1900s; 2. The 1910s; 3. The 1920s; 4. The 1930s; 5. The 1940s; 6. The 1950s; 7. The 1960s; 8. The 1970s; 9. The 1980s; 10. The 1990s and 2000s

Additional information

GOR000771897
9780198614524
0198614527
Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words That Shaped Our Age by John Ayto
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
20061012
256
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