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Birding English: Exploring The History Of A Language Through 50 Birds (Bur Oak Book)
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What Do Words Like Unkindness, Haggard, Asparagus, Jizz, And The Singular They Have To Do With Birds? Quite A Lot, Actually. From Old English Roots And Shakespearean Idioms To Victorian Slang And Modern Online Lingo, Birding English Charts A Dynamic Course Through EnglishS Past, Present, And Future By Admiring The Plumage Of Falcons, The Songs Of Sparrows, And The Flight Of Ducks. With Each Of His Fifty Mini Essays, Jeremy Withers Uses Birds As A Point Of Entry Into A Key Moment In The Development Of English: Its Origins In The ProtoIndoEuropean And ProtoGermanic Languages, The Influence Of Writers Like Geoffrey Chaucer And William Shakespeare, The Creation Of EnglishS First Dictionaries And Grammar Books, And The Arrival Of Rhyming Slang And Portmanteaus. Ideal For Word Nerds And Bird Nerds Alike, This Book Will Enchant Anyone WhoS Ever Been Captivated By The Song Of A Bird Or The Song Of A Word.
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