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Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories.
Author: Simon Horobin
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/01/2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198832270
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 108
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2019
Booklist 12/15/2019 pg. 84
About the Author
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), and Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013). He has appeared as an English language expert on radio and television programmes such as Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show and Radio 4's Stephen Fry's English Delight.
Author: Simon Horobin
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/01/2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198832270
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 108
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2019
Booklist 12/15/2019 pg. 84
About the Author
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), and Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013). He has appeared as an English language expert on radio and television programmes such as Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show and Radio 4's Stephen Fry's English Delight.
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