New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World
Tracing the development of green from the days when it was just a colour, web when it was something spiders made and trolls when they were nothing more threatening than the baddies in fairy tales, this is a fascinating tour through the history of the words we use every day.
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- ISBN: 978-1-78243-472-6
- EAN: 9781782434726
- Produktnummer: 18319413
- Verlag: Michael Omara Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.5 cm 329 g
- Gewicht: 329
Über den Autor
Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe.Her website is carolinetaggart.co.uk and you can follow her on Twitter @citaggart.
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