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400 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780375721137
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Reference
Publication date: Not specified
Description
If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, busine...
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400 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780375721137
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Reference
Publication date: Not specified
Description
If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, busine...