Skipworth, Patrick

Summary: Explores the global diversity hidden in the English language by explaining the origins of words like "ukulele," "zero," and "safari."

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Publisher / Publication Date: What on Earth Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 420.9 SKI

Sheehan, Michael

Contents: Student bloopers -- Nautical or nice -- Nifty neologisms -- Krazy combos -- Significantly insignificant -- Double your pleasure -- Bar none -- Future imperfect -- Names that fit like a glove -- Dum and dummer -- Pardon me, myth -- Feet of measured confusion -- Malapropisms and mondegreens -- Mach 1 -- Hue and cry -- Guardian and guideword -- Ollie, ollie, -ologist -- Irish bulls -- Word...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423.028 SHE

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 422 ONE

Shea, Ammon

Summary: "The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 SHE