The language report /
Susie Dent.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- x, 166 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
2000-2007: the winners and the losers -- Bigger brother -- The sound of science -- Us and them: the language of division -- Minds, hearts, and coronets: political language -- 'Ding dong': the shorthand of catchphrases -- Language on the horizon: jottings and musings -- Boiling frogs and burning platforms: the good and bad of office English -- Online English: the new normal -- The old, the new, the borrowed, and the blue -- Sold in a sentence: the art of the headline -- Green: the new black -- Bubbling under in 2007 -- The words of the years.
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013795023 Uk
English language--Usage. English language--Grammar. English language--Spoken English.