Bad English
A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Editorial Penguin USA
Fecha de edición junio 2015 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780399165580
272 páginas
Libro
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Resumen del libro
English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes over the past millennium, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong.
