Howard Richler
Auteur van A Bawdy Language: How a Second-Rate Language Slept Its Way to the Top
Werken van Howard Richler
Strange Bedfellows: The Secret Lives of Words 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1948
- Geslacht
- male
- Woonplaatsen
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Beroepen
- language columnist
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A Bawdy Language: How a Second-Rate Language Slept… door Howard Richler
An attempt to write a racy history of the rise of the English language. As a language with a looser grammar than many, and with a lack of declensions, English is presently received in some of the best linguistic circles. The language of the sea, the airlines, and the computers, has triumphed I reread this book seventeen years later. Still worth it
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- 9
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- 66
- Populariteit
- #259,059
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- 2.9
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- 1
- ISBNs
- 15
