Word Watching: Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist by Julian Burnside

Word Watching: Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist

Julian Burnside

336 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language. We live in a torrent of words — from radio and television, books and newsp...

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