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270 pages • first pub 1990 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140143058
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Edition Pub Date: 17 July 1990
Description
How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our di...
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270 pages • first pub 1990 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140143058
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Edition Pub Date: 17 July 1990
Description
How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our di...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings