Weeds in the Garden of Words
Subtitle: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780521853132
Subjects: Language Teaching & Learning (Other Than ELT); Linguistics; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; History; English language; Etymology; Terms and phrases
First sentence: Weed experts, I gather, have great difficulty coming up with a scientific account of the term weed.