Etymology English

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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2005
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

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    • A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Amanda Montell, feminist linguist and features editor at online magazine Byrdie, explains why words matter and why it’s imperative that women embrace their unique relationship with language....

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    • Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
    • By: Julian Burnside
    • Narrated by: James Millar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language....

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    • The Untold Story of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

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    • Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
    • By: Susie Dent
    • Narrated by: Susie Dent
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Lexicographer and all-round word expert Susie Dent is a national treasure. The listener can discover a curious coinage or a fascinating etymological fact for every day of a full year....

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    • By: Lee Child
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human....

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    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....

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    • Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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    • Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder
    • By: Susie Dent
    • Narrated by: Susie Dent
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • There are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them....

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    • How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age
    • By: Steven Mithen
    • Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words....

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    • A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
    • By: Christopher Stevens
    • Narrated by: Michael Healy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue....

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    • Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words
    • By: Kevin Hall
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • We live our lives word by word - to build our relationships, to convey our points of view, to object to wrongs done to us or to others, to comfort our children and our friends....

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    • A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
    • By: Joseph Twadell Shipley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2023
    • Language: English
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    • There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence....

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    • The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
    • By: Jack Lynch
    • Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2013
    • Language: English
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    • In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers - those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak....

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    • The Deaf Phoenicians
    • By: Dylan Saccoccio
    • Narrated by: Emiliana Pacheco
    • Series: Spirit Whirled, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • You know something is wrong. The paradigm you live in is unjust, rigged against those without money, and completely unsustainable from both an economic and ecosystemic standpoint....

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    • An Old English Bestiary
    • By: Hana Videen
    • Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Old English was spoken over a thousand years ago, when every animal was a deor. In this glittering Old English bestiary we find deors big and small, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the good, the bad and the downright baffling....

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