Using English Words

by P. Corson and David Corson

Book Overview

Using English Words examines the impact that the life histories of people have on their vocabulary. Its starting point is the taken-for-granted fact that the vocabulary of English falls into two very different sections. Randolph Quirk mentions this striking incompatibility between the Anglo- Saxon and the Latinate elements in English: "the familiar homely-sounding and typically very short words" that we learn very early in life and use for most everyday...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792337115
• ISBN13: 9780792337119
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"