TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butterfield,Jeremy
TI  - Damp squid: the English language laid bare / 
SN  - 9780199574094 (pbk.)
AV  - PE1575 B88 2009
U1  - 412 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  -  English language
KW  - Etymology
KW  - Word formation
KW  - Usage
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-174) and index; 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
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ER  -