The World of Words: A Language ReaderBarnet Kottler, Martin Light |
Contents
Allen Walker Read Family Words in English | 14 |
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Coinages | 75 |
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adjectives advertising American English American Speech Amherst College appears argot become called century Cobras college slang communication concept connotations Copperhead course culture dialect dictionary E. E. Cummings Emily Dickinson England English language essay example experience expression fact feel fraternity French gang grammar H. L. Mencken Hemingway Hemingway's Holden human Ibid idiom Ingsoc jargon jazz language of science Latin letters linguistic literary living Loco-foco Mark Twain meaning metaphor mind modern nature Negro never Newspeak non-U noun original Oxford English Dictionary permission person phrase play poem poet poetic poetry political prison quots reader Reprinted seems sense sentence Shakespeare slang social society sometimes sound speak speakers standard street style sub-groups Sunkist T. S. Eliot talk things thought tion translation University usage verb verbal vernacular vocabulary Whitman words writing York