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Curzan, Anne.
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English language -- Etymology.
English language -- Foreign elements.
English language -- New words.
English language -- Obscene words.
English language -- Obsolete words.
English language -- Slang.
English language -- Pronunciation.
English language -- Orthography and spelling.
English language -- Errors of usage.
English language -- Dictionaries -- Authorship.
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Words, New.
Lexicology.
Language and the Internet.
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Curzan, Anne.
English language -- Etymology.
English language -- Foreign elements.
English language -- New words.
English language -- Obscene words.
English language -- Obsolete words.
English language -- Slang.
English language -- Pronunciation.
English language -- Orthography and spelling.
English language -- Errors of usage.
English language -- Dictionaries -- Authorship.
English language.
Words, New.
Lexicology.
Language and the Internet.
Figures of speech.
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The secret life of
words
[videorecording (DVD)] : English
words
and their origins / Anne Curzan.
by
Curzan, Anne.
Teaching Co., c2012.
Call #:
DVD 422 C983s
Subjects
English language -- Etymology.
English language -- Foreign elements.
English language -- New
words
.
English language -- Obscene
words
.
English language -- Obsolete
words
.
English language -- Slang.
English language -- Pronunciation.
English language -- Orthography and spelling.
English language -- Errors of usage.
English language -- Dictionaries -- Authorship.
English language.
Words
, New.
Lexicology.
Language and the Internet.
Figures of speech.
Series
Great courses (DVD)
Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Writing.
ISBN:
9781598038934 (set)
Alternate title:
Great Courses. The secret life of
words
[videorecording (DVD)] : English
words
and their origins
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] :
Description:
6 videodiscs (18 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 269 p. ; 19 cm.).
Notes:
"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Home use only.
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: word 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 with 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
.
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Anne Curzan, Professor of English, University of Michigan.
Summary:
This course of 36 half-hour lectures explores the history of English
words
, tracing back a number of common and uncommon
words
and phrases through history to get their origins. The course considers whether such forces as television or the Internet threaten this rich lexical diversity in English.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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1
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DVD 422 C983s
Adult Dvds-21 Days
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Jul 20, 2024
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