Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- A few words before we start
- Acknowledgements
- 1 How do languages change?
- 2 Why are languages always changing?
- 3 Where do words come from?
- 4 Skunk-Leek – my kind of town: what's in a name?
- 5 Where does English come from?
- 6 Why is American English different from British English?
- 7 Why is English spelling so eccentric?
- 8 Which is the oldest language?
- Some final thoughts
- Further reading
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- A few words before we start
- Acknowledgements
- 1 How do languages change?
- 2 Why are languages always changing?
- 3 Where do words come from?
- 4 Skunk-Leek – my kind of town: what's in a name?
- 5 Where does English come from?
- 6 Why is American English different from British English?
- 7 Why is English spelling so eccentric?
- 8 Which is the oldest language?
- Some final thoughts
- Further reading
- Index
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- Why Do Languages Change? , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009