TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burridge,Kate
TI  - Weeds in the garden of words: further observations on the tangled history of the English language 
SN  - 0521853133
AV  - PE1574 .B87 2005
U1  - 428 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Etymology
KW  - History
KW  - Terms and phrases
KW  - Usage
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index; Introduction to the weedy traits of the English language --; Our lexical weeds : the world of jargon, slang and euphemism --; More lexical weeds : word origins and meaning shifts --; Our grammatical weeds --; Weeds in our sounds and spelling --; The truly nasty weeds of the English language? --; W(h)ither our weeds?
N2  - "If the English language is a glorious garden, filled with exotic hybrids and the continuing tradition of heritage specimens, then it is no surprise that we will also find some weeds. Linguistic weeds may have pronunciations we don't want or constructions that are out of place. We may be trying to hold on to words and usage we should perhaps have said farewell to. But as all gardeners know, what one gardener calls a 'weed', another may call a 'flower'. The some goes for words and their usage in English - sometimes we just haven't realized their virtues."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -