CD Audiobook
The secret life of words English words and their origins
Record details
- ISBN: 159803894X
- ISBN: 9781598038941
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Physical Description:
18 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. in 3 containers + 1 course guide (vi, 269 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) in bag.
sound disc
sound recording - Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. Course no. 2140. Title from disc label. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | disc 1.; Winning words, banished words --; the life of a word, from birth ot death --; disc 2.; The human hands behind dictionaries --; Treasure houses, theft, and traps --; disc 3.; Yarn and clues-New word meanings --; Smog, mob, bling-new words --; disc 4.; "Often" versus "offen"-pronunciation --; Fighting over zippers --; disc 5.; Opening the early English word-hoard --; Safe and sound-The French invasion --; disc 6.; Magnifical dexterity-Latin and learning --; Chutzpah to Pajamas-world borrowings --; disc 7.; the pop/soda/coke divide --; Maths, wombats and les bluejeans --; disc 8.; Foot and pedestrian-word cousins --; Desultory somersaults-Latin roots --; disc 9.; Analogous prologues-Greek roots --; The tough stuff of English spelling --; disc 10.; the b is debt-medding in spelling --; Of mice, men and Y'all --; disc 11.; I'm good... or Am I well? --; How snuck sneaked in --; disc 12.; Um, well, like, you know --; Wicked cool-the irreverence of slang --; disc 13.; Boy toys and bad eggs-slang wordplay --; Spinster, bachelor, guy, dude --; disc 14.; Firefighters and freshpersons --; A slam dunk-the language of sports --; disc 15.; Fooling around-the language of love --; Gung up-the language of war --; disc 16.; Fillibustering-the language of politics --; LOL-the language of the internet --; disc 17.; #$@%!-forbidden words --; Couldn't (or could) care less --; disc 18.; Musquirt and other lexical gaps --; Playing fast and loose with words. |
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| Subject: | English language Obsolete words English language Etymology English language History |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Howe Library | CD 422.22 CUR | 31254003072135 | Upper level | Available | - |