CD Audiobook
The secret life of words : English words and their origins
Record details
- ISBN: 9781598038941
- ISBN: 159803894X
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Physical Description:
sound disc
18 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm). - Publisher: Chantilly, VA. : Teaching Company, ℗2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. In three containers (19 cm.). |
| 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 in debt -- meddling 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 ho -- 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. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Anne Curzan, professor, University of Michigan. |
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| Subject: | English language History English language Etymology English language Obsolete words English language |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. History. Talking books. Talking books, Unabridged. |
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Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | PE 1580 .C87 2012 V. 1 of 3 | 289291 | Audio Shelf | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | PE 1580 .C87 2012 V. 2 of 3 | 289292 | Audio Shelf | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | PE 1580 .C87 2012 V. 3 of 3 | 289293 | Audio Shelf | Available | - |