| Description |
18 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm). |
| Playing Time |
090000 |
| Series |
The great courses, literature & language, writing |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Anne Curzan, professor, University of Michigan. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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In three containers (19 cm.). |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Winning words, banished words -- The life of a word, from birth ot death -- disc 2. The human hands behind dictionaries -- Treasure houses, theft, and traps -- disc 3. Yarn and clues -- new word meanings -- Smog, mob, bling -- new words -- disc 4. "Often" versus "offen" -- pronunciation -- Fighting over zippers -- disc 5. Opening the early English word-hoard -- Safe and sound -- the French invasion -- disc 6. Magnifical dexterity -- Latin and learning -- Chutzpah to pajamas -- world borrowings -- disc 7. The pop/soda/coke divide -- Maths, wombats and Les bluejeans -- disc 8. Foot and pedestrian -- word cousins -- Desultory somersaults -- Latin roots -- disc 9. Analogous prologues -- Greek roots -- The tough stuff of English spelling -- disc 10. The b in debt -- meddling in spelling -- Of mice, men and y'all -- disc 11. I'm good -- or am I well? -- How snuck sneaked in -- disc 12. Um, well, like, you know -- Wicked cool -- the irreverence of slang -- disc 13. Boy toys and bad eggs -- slang wordplay -- Spinster, bachelor, guy, dude -- disc 14. Firefighters and freshpersons -- A slam dunk -- the language of sports -- disc 15. Fooling around -- the language of love -- Gung ho -- the language of war -- disc 16. Fillibustering -- the language of politics -- LOL -- the language of the internet -- disc 17. #$@%! -- forbidden words -- Couldn't (or could) care less -- disc 18. Musquirt and other lexical gaps -- Playing fast and loose with words. |
| Summary |
"Words have fascinating stories to tell - about the history and culture of their speakers, about the human mind and human creativity, and about the power of language. This course explores the history of English words, tracing back a number of common and uncommon words and phrases through history to get to their origins"--Taken from course scope. |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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English language -- Etymology.
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English language -- Obsolete words.
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English language. (OCoLC)fst00910920
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English language -- Etymology.
(OCoLC)fst00911149
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English language -- Obsolete words.
(OCoLC)fst00911412
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| Genre/Form |
Lecture (DNLM)D019531
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Talking books.
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Talking books, Unabridged.
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lectures. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026673
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Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Audiobooks.
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Lectures.
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| ISBN |
9781598038941 |
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159803894X |
| Music No. |
2140 Teaching Company |
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