The Story of English in 100 Words

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by David Crystal


  5. Just Visiting, corner of the Monopoly board 60

  6. In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra album sleeve, 1955 71

  7. Yorkshire Penny Bank Building, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, © Mark Sunderland Photography, photographersdirect.com 84

  8. A child’s hornbook, The British Library 100

  9. US scholars toasting Ben Johnson on the 200th anniversary of Johnson’s Dictionary. Photo by Walter Sanders/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images 127

  10. The Oxford Gazette, November 1665 135

  11. Cover image from Chicken Licken, Ladybird Easy Reading series 146

  12. Cover images from Harry Potter and the Philopher’s Stone, published in the UK by Bloomsbury; and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, published in the USA by Scholastic, written by J. K. Rowling 152

  13. An early advertisement by Bell Telephones 164

  14. Lukaut long bulmakau, a Tok Pisin sign from Papua New Guinea © Michael Pennay 179

  15. ‘Betty Rules OK’ 1 June 1977: Residents of the Aintree Estate, Fulham, London, express their sentiments in a celebration of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. Photo by Central Press/Getty Images 184

  16. Poster showing Karel Čapek’s Robot, Library of Congress 200

  17. Belinda Blurb, with thanks to Stan Carey 214

  18. Let’s Stalk Strine, book jacket from 1965 218

  19. ‘Gotcha’, Sun front page, 4 May 1982 228

  20. Emoticons, Western and Eastern variations 243

  Word index

  ain’t 158

  alphabet 98

  Alzheimer’s 219

  Americanism 151

  and 8

  app 237

  arse 45

  bagonise 233

  billion 129

  bloody 120

  blurb 213

  bodgery 112

  bone-house 33

  bridegroom 43

  brock 35

  brunch 173

  chattels 52

  cherry-picking 239

  chillax 251

  cuckoo 64

  cunt 65

  dame 54

  debt 105

  dialect 109

  dilly-dally 145

  dinkum 176

  disinterested 139

  DNA 193

  doable 93

  doobry 211

  doublespeak 207

  dragsman 166

  dude 171

  edit 154

  egg 78

  English 38

  escalator 197

  fopdoodle 125

  gaggle 91

  garage 195

  gazette 134

  gotcha 227

  grammar 73

  grand 222

  hello 163

  information(s) 89

  ink-horn 107

  jail 59

  jazz 245

  lakh 123

  lea 5

  loaf 10

  LOL 241

  lunch 169

  matrix 95

  mead 20

  mega 225

  merry 23

  mipela 178

  money 82

  muggle 248

  music 85

  OK 183

  ology 186

  out 13

  PC 230

  polite 142

  pork 50

  potato 102

  rep 149

  riddle 26

  robot 199

  roe 1

  royal 80

  schmooze 181

  shibboleth 119

  skirt 57

  skunk 116

  species 156

  speech-craft 191

  street 16

  Strine 216

  sudoku 247

  swain 48

  taffeta 87

  take away 62

  tea 137

  trek 160

  Twittersphere 254

  UFO 203

  undeaf 113

  unfriend 253

  valentine 76

  Watergate 205

  webzine 235

  wee 70

  what 29

  wicked 68

  y’all 189

  yogurt 132

 

 

 


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