Damp squid : the English language laid bare /

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Main Author: Butterfield, Jeremy, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:www.oup.com
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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.