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Readership: Anyone with an interest in the English language; students of English language and literature, including lexicography.
Jeremy Butterfield, Freelance
"'This book will be fascinating to those who would really like to find out how the English language is behaving. Clearly written and informative, it is a lively guide to that most creative and challenging language, English'" - Alexander McCall Smith
"Nice choice of words" - Newsweek, 13 December 2008
"definitive guide to the evolution of English" - Scottish Daily Mail, 3 November 2008
"absorbing... lively...you will find something of interest on every page" - English Teaching Professional, 1 January 2009
A sea change: The Corpus 1: Size matters: How many words? 2: Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman-English: Where do words come from? 3: Beware of heard: Why spelling wobbles 4: Which is to be master? Meaning in context 5: Words of a feather: Word groupings 6: Cats and dogs: Idiomatic phrases 7: Grammar that can govern even kings: What do we mean by grammar? 8: Style wars: Usages people hate Dictionaries then and now Notes Index
'Meet the Author' on video
