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Why do languages change? /
"The first recorded English name for the make-up we now call blusher was paint, in 1660. In the 1700s a new word, rouge, displaced paint, and remained in standard usage for around two centuries. Then, in 1965, an advertisement coined a new word for the product: blusher. Each generation speaks a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- How do languages change?
- Why are languages always changing?
- Where do words come from?
- Skunk-Leek--my kind of town: what's in a name?
- Where does English come from?
- Why is American English different from British English?
- Why is English spelling so eccentric?
- Which is the oldest language?
- Some final thoughts.