Bagels, Bumf, and Buses (PDF)
A Day in the Life of the English Language
(Sprache: Englisch)
Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over...
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Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have
surprisingly fascinating histories.
surprisingly fascinating histories.
Autoren-Porträt von Simon Horobin
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), and Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013). He has appeared as an English language expert on radio and television programmes such as Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show and Radio 4's Stephen Fry'sEnglish Delight.
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- Autor: Simon Horobin
- 2019, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192568272
- ISBN-13: 9780192568274
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2019
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