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A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary. 'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information ...
It is estimated that on average an English-speaking adult has acquired a functioning vocabulary of 25,000 words by the time they reach middle age ...
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to ...
Schmegoogle: n. : someone so insignificant that if you Google their name, nothing comes up.
Yiddish has long-enriched English language slang. In this fast-changing modern world ...
The Scots language is an ancient and lyrical tongue, one inherently linked to the country's history and identity, its land and culture. It is ...
Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Neil Armstrong, Jack Kerouac, Yoda: these are just a handful of the writers and speakers whose words are parsed in this ...
Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively ...
