The 100 Words That Make The English
Author | : Tony Thorne |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748131747 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748131744 |
Rating | : 4/5 (744 Downloads) |
Download or read book The 100 Words That Make The English written by Tony Thorne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no one seems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. In exploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled a fascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have become the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out our common ground, to define what makes us essentially English, and thus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off our shores.