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Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins

Series: Great Courses
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(160)
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36
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NR
Year
2012
Language
English

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It's a human impulse to play with language and to create new words and meanings - but also to worry about the decay of language. But by studying how and why language changes and the story behind the everyday words in our lexicon, we can learn a lot about ourselves - how our minds work and how our culture has changed over the centuries.

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