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The secret life of words English words and their origins /
- Title
- The secret life of words [videorecording] : English words and their origins / Professor Anne Curzan.
- Author
- Curzan, Anne.
- Publication
- Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Co., c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moving image | Use in library | PE1075 .C879 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Teaching Company. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91045166
- Description
- 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- Presents a survey of English, from its Germanic origins to the rise of globalization and cyber-communications.
- Alternative Title
- English words and their origins
- Subject
- Note
- 36 lectures (30 minutes each)
- System Details (note)
- DVD.
- Contents
- Disc 1. Winning words, banished words ; The life of a word, from birth to death ; The human hands behind dictionaries ; Treasure houses, theft, and traps ; Yarn and clues--New word meanings ; Smog, mob, bling--new words -- Disc 2. "Often" versus "Offen"--pronunciation ; Fighting over zippers ; Opening the early English word-hoard ; Safe and sound--the French invasion ; Magnifical dexterity--Latin and learning ; Chutzpah to pajamas--world borrowings -- Disc 3. The pop/soda/coke divide ; Maths, wombats, and les bluejeans ; Foot and pedestrian--word cousins ; Desultory somersaults--Latin roots ; Analogous prologues--Greek roots ; The tough stuff of English spelling -- Disc 4. The b in Debt--Meddling in spelling ; Of mice, men, and y'all ; I'm good ... or am I well? ; How snuck sneaked in ; Um, well, like, you know ; Wicked cool--the irreverence of slang -- Disc 5. Boy toys and bad eggs--slangy wordplay ; Spinster, bachelor, guy, dude ; Firefighters and freshpersons ; A slam dunk--the language of sports ; Fooling around--the language of love ; Gung ho--the language of war -- Disc 6. Filibustering--the language of politics ; LOL--the language of the Internet ; #$@%!--forbidden words ; Couldn't (or could) care less ; Musquirt and other lexical gaps ; Playing fast and loose with words.
- ISBN
- 1598038931
- 9781598038934
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library