SECRET LIFE OF WORDS: HOW ENGLISH BECAME ENGLISH
by HITCHINGS, HENRY
List Price: HK$ 272.00
¡@ISBN
9780719564543
¡@Subject
REFERENCE & LANGUAGES
¡@Publisher
JOHN MURRAY UK
¡@Publication
2008
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change and remind us of our turbulent past. Henry Hitchings delves into our promiscuous language and reveals how and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages many originating from the most unlikely of places, such as shampoo from Hindi and kiosk from Turkish.
