Damp squid
Subtitle: the English language laid bare
By: Jeremy Butterfield.
Publisher: Oxford University Press ; Oxford
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199574094
Subjects: English language -- Etymology; English language -- Word formation; English language -- Usage
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A sea change: the corpus; title: Size matters: how many words?; title: Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English: where do words come from?; title: Beware of heard: why spelling wobbles; title: Which is to be master? meaning in context; title: Words of a feather: word groupings; title: Cats and dogs: idiomatic phrases; title: Grammar that can govern even kings: what do we mean by grammar?; title: Style wars: usages people hate.