Story of English in 100 Words

Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words (''loaf'') to cutting edge (''twittersphere'') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue (''and'', ''what'') to the more fanciful (''fopdoodle''), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.In this unique new history of the world''s mos...