The miracle of language / Charlton Laird
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- 311 páginas : gráficas ; 23 cm.
1. The miracle of the desart.-- 2. The begats of the sons of og.-- 3. English: his sisters and his cousins and his aunts.-- 4. Amoebas in the dictionary.-- 5. Whodunt? skeletons in the linguistic closet.-- 6. Both a borrower and a lender be.-- 7. Linguistic Ellis island: What came in the steerage.-- 8. The gods who trouble the waters of our voice stream.-- 9. The way of a man with a noise.-- 10. Whom linguistics hath joined together let no man put asunder.-- 11. The speech that blooms on the tongue, tra-la, has little to do with case.-- 12. More leary grammars.-- 13. The bugs and imps in our language.-- 14. Hengist to mencken: a summary of why we talk like americans.-- 15. The king's English in a democratic world.-- 16. Man does not think with brains alone.