Okrent, Arika
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서명/저자사항 | Highly irregular : why tough, through, and dough don't rhyme-and other oddities of the English language/ Arika Okrent ; iIllustrated by Sean O'Neill. |
개인저자 | Okrent, Arika,author. O'Neill, Sean,1968- illustrator, |
발행사항 | New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2021]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages): illustrations. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Okrent, Arika. Highly irregular New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. 9780197539408 |
ISBN | 0197539424 9780197539415 0197539416 9780197616017 0197616011 9780197539422 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
요약 | Highly Irregular is an illustrated history of English as told through all the things that are weird about it. Why are there so many silent letters? Why do we have irregular verbs? What is the deal with the word 'colonel'? The weirdness of English can be blamed on specific influences that shaped it, and in this book Arika Okrent investigates the many puzzles of our language to show how English came to be the way it is today. |
일반주제명 | English language --Orthography and spelling --History. English language --Pronunciation. English language --Orthography and spelling. English language --Pronunciation. |
언어 | 영어 |
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