Damp squid : the English language laid bare /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.