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Winged Words Book

Fueled by continuous new coinages in science, communications, business, and politics, the English language in the last decade has changed faster than at any time in the fifteen centuries of its history. In Winged Words, Philip Howard, the Literary Editor of The Times of London, examines this incredible flood of new words and phrases, from Golden Parachute to chaology (the mathematical study of chaos), from rehab to GIGO, and from Thatcher girls to Reaganomics. This is the fifth collection of Howard's articles on language. As ever, he is informative, witty, and entertaining, providing much good humor as he illuminates recent changes to British and American English. In the first half of the book he considers words or new meanings that have appeared in the last few years, analyzing their read more...
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