The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal

The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal

Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to advanced ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), the author takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.

Crystal's book is full of distractions and delights * Daily Express *
One of [Crystal's] best.. it builds gradually into a kind of linguistic tapestry, packed with abstruse information, wonderfully readable * Spectator *
If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide * The Age, Australia *
Delicious revelations ... Crystal does an excellent job, not just of tracing the etymology of a word, but of relating it to social history, painting a picture of our times through words * Independent on Sunday *

David Crystal is the foremost expert on English, and honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written many books and published articles in fields ranging from forensic linguistics and ELT to the liturgy and Shakespeare.

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ISBN 13	9781846684289
ISBN 10	1846684285
Title	The Story of English in 100 Words
Author	David Crystal
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2012-07-05
Number of pages	288
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