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Damp squid : the English language laid bare / Jeremy Butterfield.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 179 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780199574094 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 412 B988
LOC classification:
  • PE1575 B88 2009
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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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