TY - BOOK AU - Dent,Susie TI - The language report SN - 0198608608 AV - PE 1630 D414l 2003 U1 - 428 PY - 2003/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - English language KW - New words KW - Spoken English KW - Written English KW - Usage N1 - What goes around : a hundred years of new words -- In the spotlight : the words in the news -- The language innovators : how new words come about -- WAN 2 TLK TXT? -- Words on the catwalk -- Plain cyberspeaking -- Fighting talk : the language of battle -- Talking on message : the new political lexicon -- Riding the soundwaves -- The language traders : business speak -- The word on the pitch : sporting language -- Quotes of the century -- Slanguage on the streets : the new urban slang -- Chewing the linguistic scenery : idioms -- Slogans are forever : the best of advertising -- I'm a celebrity, get me in the dictionary -- Dinky dirts and Tony Blairs : rhyming slang in the 2000s -- Free comment : the art of the headline -- Sticks and stones -- Apostrophe catastrophes : new trends in grammar and usage -- Crossing continents : US English -- Where global meets local : world English -- Sound and fury : the changing pronunciation of British English -- The sound of American English -- Fictional realities : the language of TV UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0620/2004271426-d.html ER -