The Secret Life of Words-English Words and Their Origins

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English is changing all around us. We see this in new words such as bling and email, and from the loss of old forms such as shall. Its a human impulse to play with language and to create new words and meanings but also to worry about the decay of language. Does text messaging signal the end of pure English? Why do teenagers pepper their sentences with like and you know?
By studying how and why language changes and the story behind the everyday words in our lexicon, we can learn a lot about ourselves?Çöhow our minds work and how our culture has changed over the centuries.

Beyond this, words are enormously powerful. They can clarify or obscure the truth, set a political agenda, and drive commercial enterprises. They have the power to amuse and to hurt. They can connect us to each other or drive us apart. Sometimes words are unsayable, and other times words fail us completely because, for all the vibrancy and breadth of English, we still have major gaps in the lexicon.

In The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins, youll get a delightful, informative survey of English, from its Germanic origins to the rise of globalization and cyber-communications. Award-winning Professor Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan approaches the subject like an archaeologist, digging below the surface to uncover the story of words, from the humble she to such SAT words as conflagration and pedimanous.

36 Lectures
30 minutes/lecture

1. Winning Words, Banished Words
19. The b in Debt-Meddling in Spelling
2. The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death
20. Of Mice, Men, and Y'All
3. The Human Hands behind Dictionaries
21. I'm Good . Or Am I Well?
4. Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps
22. How Snuck Sneaked In
5. Yarn and Clues-New Word Meanings
23. Um, Well, Like, You Know
6. Smog, Mob, Bling-New Words
24. Wicked Cool-The Irreverence of Slang
7. "Often" versus "Offen"-Pronunciation
25. Boy Toys and Bad Eggs-Slangy Wordplay
8. Fighting over Zippers
26. Spinster, Bachelor, Guy, Dude
9. Opening the Early English Word-Hoard
27. Firefighters and Freshpersons
10. Safe and Sound-The French Invasion
28. A Slam Dunk-The Language of Sports
11. Magnifical Dexterity-Latin and Learning
29. Fooling Around-The Language of Love
12. Chutzpah to Pajamas-World Borrowings
30. Gung Ho-The Language of War
13. The Pop/Soda/Coke Divide
31. Filibustering-The Language of Politics
14. Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans
32. LOL-The Language of the Internet
15. Foot and Pedestrian-Word Cousins
33. #$@%!-Forbidden Words
16. Desultory Somersaults-Latin Roots
34. Couldn't (or Could) Care Less
17. Analogous Prologues-Greek Roots
35. Musquirt and Other Lexical Gaps
18. The Tough Stuff of English Spelling
36. Playing Fast and Loose with Words

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