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Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface A short history of English words 1 Roe – the first word (5th century) 2 Lea – naming places (8th century) 3 And – an early abbreviation (8th century) 4 Loaf – an unexpected origin (9th century) 5 Out – changing grammar (9th century) 6 Street – a Latin loan (9th century) 7 Mead – a window into history (9th century) 8 Merry – a dialect survivor (9th century) 9 Riddle – playing with language (10th century) 10 What – an early exclamation (10th century) 11 Bone-house – a word-painting (10th century) 12 Brock – a Celtic arrival (10th century) 13 English – the language named (10th century) 14 Bridegroom – a popular etymology (11th century) 15 Arse – an impolite word (11th century) 16 Swain – a poetic expression (12th century) 17 Pork – an elegant word (13th century) 18 Chattels – a legal word (13th century) 19 Dame – a form of address (13th century) 20 Skirt – a word doublet (13th century) 21 Jail – competing words (13th century) 22 Take away – a phrasal verb (13th century) 23 Cuckoo – a sound-symbolic word (13th century) 24 Cunt – a taboo word (13th century) 25 Wicked – a radical alteration (13th century) 26 Wee – a Scottish contribution (14th century) 27 Grammar – a surprising link (14th century) 28 Valentine – first name into word (14th century) 29 Egg – a dialect choice (14th century) 30 Royal – word triplets (14th century) 31 Money – a productive idiom (14th century) 32 Music – a spelling in evolution (14th century) 33 Taffeta – an early trade word (14th century) 34 Information(s) – (un)countable nouns (14th century) 35 Gaggle – a collective noun (15th century) 36 Doable – a mixing of languages (15th century) 37 Matrix – a word from Tyndale (16th century) 38 Alphabet – talking about writing (16th century) 39 Potato – a European import (16th century) 40 Debt – a spelling reform (16th century) 41 Ink-horn – a classical flood (16th century) 42 Dialect – regional variation (16th century) 43 Bodgery – word-coiners (16th century) 44 Undeaf – a word from Shakespeare (16th century) 45 Skunk – an early Americanism (17th century) 46 Shibboleth – a word from King James (17th century) 47 Bloody – an emerging swear-word (17th century) 48 Lakh – a word from India (17th century) 49 Fopdoodle – a lost word (17th century) 50 Billion – a confusing ambiguity (17th century) 51 Yogurt – a choice of spelling (17th century) 52 Gazette – a taste of journalese (17th century) 53 Tea – a social word (17th century) 54 Disinterested – a confusible (17th century) 55 Polite – a matter of manners (17th century) 56 Dilly-dally – a reduplicating word (17th century) 57 Rep – a clipping (17th century) 58 Americanism – a new nation (18th century) 59 Edit – a back-formation (18th century) 60 Species – classifying things (18th century) 61 Ain’t – right and wrong (18th century) 62 Trek – a word from Africa (19th century) 63 Hello – progress through technology (19th century) 64 Dragsman – thieves’ cant (19th century) 65 Lunch – U or non-U (19th century) 66 Dude – a cool usage (19th century) 67 Brunch – a portmanteau word (19th century) 68 Dinkum – a word from Australia (19th century) 69 Mipela – pidgin English (19th century) 70 Schmooze – a Yiddishism (19th century) 71 OK – debatable origins (19th century) 72 Ology – suffix into word (19th century) 73 Y’all – a new pronoun (19th century) 74 Speech-craft – an Anglo-Saxonism (19th century) 75 DNA – scientific terminology (20th century) 76 Garage – a pronunciation problem (20th century) 77 Escalator – word into name into word (20th century) 78 Robot – a global journey (20th century) 79 UFO – alternative forms (20th century) 80 Watergate – place-name into word (20th century) 81 Doublespeak – weasel words (20th century) 82 Doobry – useful nonsense (20th century) 83 Blurb – a moment of arrival (20th century) 84 Strine – a comic effect (20th century) 85 Alzheimer’s – surname into word (20th century) 86 Grand – money slang (20th century) 87 Mega – prefix into word (20th century) 88 Gotcha – a non-standard spelling (20th century) 89 PC – being politically correct (20th century) 90 Bagonise – a nonce-word (20th century) 91 Webzine – an internet compound (20th century) 92 App – a killer abb (20th century) 93 Cherry-picking – corporate speak (20th century) 94 LOL – netspeak (20th century) 95 Jazz – word of the century (20th century) 96 Sudoku – a modern loan (21st century) 97 Muggle – a fiction word (21st century) 98 Chillax – a fashionable blend (21st century) 99 Unfriend – a new age (21st century) 100 Twittersphere – future directions? (21st century) Illustration Credits Word Index
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