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An edition of Damp squid (2008)

Damp squid

the English language laid bare

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Oxford University Press ; Oxford
Language
English

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Subjects
Usage, English language, English language, dictionaries

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2009, Oxford University Press ; Oxford
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Table of Contents

A sea change: the corpus
Size matters: how many words?
Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English: where do words come from?
Beware of heard: why spelling wobbles
Which is to be master? meaning in context
Words of a feather: word groupings
Cats and dogs: idiomatic phrases
Grammar that can govern even kings: what do we mean by grammar?
Style wars: usages people hate.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
412
Library of Congress
PE1575 .B88 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23554675M
ISBN 13
9780199574094
LCCN
2009024511
Library Thing
6191130
Goodreads
7316578

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