The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Sol Steinmetz
The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die
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Barbara Ann Kipfer, Sol Steinmetz
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The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die

Barbara Ann Kipfer, Sol Steinmetz

388 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, busine...

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