The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death by Anne Curzan

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The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death

Anne Curzan

1 pages 2012

1 edition

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Open the Oxford English Dictionary and you’ll find dead words such as “wittol” and distinctly contemporary words such as “ginormous” and “multislacking.” In addition to looking at the lifespan of words from birth to death, this lecture also consid...

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