Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success by Allan Metcalf

Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success

Allan Metcalf

224 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative medium-paced
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Have you ever aspired to gain linguistic immortality by making up a word? Many people — such famous writers as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Dr. Seuss, along with many lesser-knowns — have coined new words that have endured. But most of the n...

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