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The Story Of English In 100 Words by David Crystal (view source)
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For those who scoot straight to the dirty words in a dictionary, chapter 15 (''Arse'') offers some entertainment, though the biggest eye-opener was the description of ''arse over tip'' – let’s just say I always use it with a slightly different final consonant in the 3rd word. Chapter 24 (''a taboo word'') may also delight.
Overall, this is a highly entertaining and informative book that is bursting with all those things you never knew you never knew. It’s an easy read that’s lovely and informal without being irritatingly familiar, would make a wonderfully wonderful stocking filler and it going straight to the linguistics section of my bookshelf for a nice long stay. You'd have to be a ''fopdoodle'' not to give it a look. Quite simply, a remarkable book - but what else would you expect from a god?
Thanks go to the publishers for supplying this book.