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Have you ever looked at a word and thought: ‘I wonder where that came from’? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin and for

This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has bee

Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.

Obsolete old words from seventeenth-century English villages reflect the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, bizarre foods, magic, horses,

Nineteenth-Century Science is a science anthology which provides over 30 selections from original 19th-century scientific monographs, textbooks and articles wri