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Whose Language Is English?
- By: Jieun Kiaer
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this ambitious book, Jieun Kiaer explores the lives of English words in the twenty-first century, when the creation and use of language has become an increasingly dynamic, interactive, and diverse process in which ordinary people have taken leading roles—offering such coinages as "flexitarian," "MeToo," "glow up," and "shitizen" to "No sabo kids" and beyond. As English language grows ever more diverse, Kiaer believes, we need a paradigm shift.
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Whose Language Is English?
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2024
- Language: English
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Enough Is Enuf
- Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
- By: Gabe Henry
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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In the comic annals of linguistic history, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill of spelling reform, risking their reputations to bring English into the realm of the rational. This book is about them: Mark Twain, Ben Franklin, Eliza Burnz, C. S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Darwin, and the innumerable others on both sides of the Atlantic who, for a time in their life, became fanatically occupied with writing thru instead of through, tho for though, laf for laugh, beleev for believe, and dawter for daughter (and tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it too).
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Enough Is Enuf
- Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 15-04-2025
- Language: English
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- The English Language in Just A Minute
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: Not Yet Known
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In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...
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- The English Language in Just A Minute
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 10-10-2024
- Language: English
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