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Pages: 275
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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History of English Words
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Geoffrey Hughes
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-02-29 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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This book traces the remarkable reconfigurations that English lexis has undergone in the past millennium. The vocabulary is studied as an indicator of social ch
English Words
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Donka Minkova
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A new edition of this textbook discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages.
English Words
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Robert Stockwell
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-07-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages. It surveys
Borrowed Words
Language: en
Pages: 512
Authors: Philip Durkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effect