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Title: The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death
Author: Anne Curzan
Narrator: Anne Curzan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-17-12
Publisher: The Great Courses
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Summary:
Open the Oxford English Dictionary and youll find dead words such as wittol and distinctly contemporary words such as ginormous and multislacking. In addition to looking at the lifespan of words from birth to death, this lecture also considers semantics - the study of how words mean what they mean.
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