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LEADER: 01923dam a2200289 a 4500
001 2004271426
003 DLC
005 20070330110810.0
008 040408s2003 enk 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2004271426
015 $aGBA3-V9957
020 $a0198608608
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm52696192
040 $aUKM$cUKM$dC#P$dIBS$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aPE1630$b.D46 2003
082 00 $a428$222
100 1 $aDent, Susie.
245 14 $aThe language report /$cSusie Dent.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2003.
300 $avii, 151 p. ;$c19 cm.
505 0 $aWhat goes around : a hundred years of new words -- In the spotlight : the words in the news -- The language innovators : how new words come about -- WAN 2 TLK TXT? -- Words on the catwalk -- Plain cyberspeaking -- Fighting talk : the language of battle -- Talking on message : the new political lexicon -- Riding the soundwaves -- The language traders : business speak -- The word on the pitch : sporting language -- Quotes of the century -- Slanguage on the streets : the new urban slang -- Chewing the linguistic scenery : idioms -- Slogans are forever : the best of advertising -- I'm a celebrity, get me in the the dictionary -- Dinky dirts and Tony Blairs : rhyming slang in the 2000s -- Free comment : the art of the headline -- Sticks and stones -- Apostrophe catastrophes : new trends in grammar and usage -- Crossing continents : US English -- Where global meets local : world English -- Sound and fury : the changing pronunciation of British English -- The sound of American English -- Fictional realities : the language of TV.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xNew words.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xSpoken English.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xWritten English.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xUsage.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0620/2004271426-d.html