The secret life of words: how English became English
Essais et documents généraux, Référence
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Résumé
An account of the transplanted, stolen, and bastardized words that make up the English language. A history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over… hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. Covers the Norman Conquest to the present day, chronicling the English language as a living archive of human experience. Some strong language. 2009.