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02960agm a2200409Ii 4500 001 FC1DD36A2E7A11E49F04F9E8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140828011723 007 vd cvaizu 008 121129t20122012vau000 vleng d 020 $a 9781598038934 020 $a 1598038931 028 40 $a 2140 $b Teaching Co. 028 40 $a ID2140A-01 $b Teaching Company 035 $a (OCoLC)819664038 040 $a IBI $b eng $e rda $c IBI $d OCLCO $d IBI $d TOL $d CN5O9 $d OCLCF $d OSU $d VP@ $d SILO 050 4 $a PE1075 $b .C879 2012 100 1 $a Curzan, Anne, $e speaker. $e speaker. 245 14 $a The secret life of words : $b English words and their origins / $c Professor Anne Curzan. 246 30 $a English words and their origins 264 1 $a Chantilly, VA : $b The Teaching Co., $c [2012] 300 $a 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : $b sound, color ; $c 4 3/4 in + $e 1 course guidebook (vi, 269 pages ; 19 cm) 538 $a DVD format. 511 0 $a Lecturer: Anne Curzan, University of Michigan. 500 $a "36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container. 520 $a Presents a survey of English, from its Germanic origins to the rise of globalization and cyber-communications. 505 00 $g Disc 6. $t Playing fast and loose with words. $t The life of a word, from birth to death ; $t The human hands behind dictionaries ; $t Treasure houses, theft, and traps ; $t Yarn and clues--New word meanings ; $t Smog, mob, bling--new words -- $g Disc 2. $t "Often" versus "Offen"--pronunciation ; $t Fighting over zippers ; $t Opening the early English word-hoard ; $t Safe and sound--the French invasion ; $t Magnifical dexterity--Latin and learning ; $t Chutzpah to pajamas--world borrowings -- $g Disc 3. $t The pop/soda/coke divide ; $t Maths, wombats, and les bluejeans ; $t Foot and pedestrian--word cousins ; $t Desultory somersaults--Latin roots ; $t Analogous prologues--Greek roots ; $t The tough stuff of English spelling -- $g Disc 4. $t The b in Debt--Meddling in spelling ; $t Of mice, men, and y'all ; $t I'm good ... or am I well? ; $t How snuck sneaked in ; $t Um, well, like, you know ; $t Wicked cool--the irreverence of slang -- $g Disc 5. $t Boy toys and bad eggs--slangy wordplay ; $t Spinster, bachelor, guy, dude ; $t Firefighters and freshpersons ; $t A slam dunk--the language of sports ; $t Fooling around--the language of love ; $t Gung ho--the language of war -- $g Disc 6. $t Filibustering--the language of politics ; $t LOL--the language of the Internet ; $t #$@%!--forbidden words ; $t Couldn't (or could) care less ; $t Musquirt and other lexical gaps ; $t Playing fast and loose with words. 650 0 $a English language $x History. 650 7 $a English language. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910920 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 710 2 $a Teaching Company, $e production company. 941 $a 2 945 $a dvv 952 $l N2AX314 $d 20210728020129.0 952 $l BWPD851 $d 20210714012439.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FC1DD36A2E7A11E49F04F9E8DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b DIVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search