The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins -CDs (The Great Courses)

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