Simon Horobin (Professor of English Language and Profes Literature

Gebundenes Buch

Bagels, Bumf, and Buses

A Day in the Life of the English Language

Beschreibung

This book explores the fascinating origins of the words and phrases that we use every day. Simon Horobin takes the reader through a typical day's activities - waking up, eating meals, going to work - and looks at the etymology of the words we use to describe them, as well as how their meanings have changed over time.

Autor

Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), and Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013). He has appeared as an English language expert on radio and television programmes such as Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show and Radio 4's Stephen Fry's English Delight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 144mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780198832270
• ISBN-10: 0198832273
• Artikelnr.: 55735527