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Bryson, Bill – 1994
Claiming that understanding the social context in which words are formed is necessary to appreciate the richness and vitality of language, this book presents an informal, discursive examination of how and why American speech came to be the way it is, and in particular where the words came from. The book follows a roughly chronological format from…
Descriptors: Idioms, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Language Variation
