Mother tongue the English language
How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our dictionary? In this revealing and often hilar...
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London [u.a.]
Penguin Books
1991
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Executive Office - 2nd Floor: On Shelves
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420.9 BR.M 1991 |
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| Copia Unknown | Not for loan Prenota |