Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language
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Kate Burridge provides an entertaining look at 'unacceptable' words, phrases and pronunciations in English.
Introduction to the weedy traits of the English language1Our lexical weeds : the world of jargon, slang and euphemism14More lexical weeds : word origins and meaning shifts49Our grammatical weeds84Weeds in our sounds and spelling120The truly nasty weeds of the English language?165W(h)ither our weeds?182
