Why Do Languages Change? by R.L. Trask

Why Do Languages Change?

R.L. Trask

198 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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The first recorded English name for the make-up we now call blusher was paint, in 1660. In the 1700s a new word, rouge, displaced paint, and remained in standard usage for around two centuries. Then, in 1965, an advertisement coined a new word for...

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