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Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age
Movers and Shakers A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age
Author: John Ayto
Take a fascinating journey from cornflakes (1907) to spam (1994). This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto's critically acclaimed Twentieth Century Words, and gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. For each decade, an introductory es...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198614524
ISBN-10: 0198614527
Publication Date: 10/26/2006
Pages: 256
Edition: Rev. Ed
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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