TTC - The Secret Life of Words (compressed) torrent

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http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-secret-life-of-words-english-words-and-their-origins.html

36 lectures | 30 minutes each

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

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