Predicting new words : the secrets of their success / Allan Metcalf.
Predicting new words : the secrets of their success / Allan Metcalf.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2002.
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N420.014/1
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 206 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
1. The Mystery of Success -- 2. How to Be a Loser -- 3. Winning Creations -- 4. The Myth of Gaps -- 5. Exceptions That Test the Rule -- 6. Natural Birth and Rebirth -- 7. Forget the Joke and Fly Under the Radar -- 8. The FUDGE Factors -- 9. The Crystal Ball -- 10. A Word of Your Own -- App. American...
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2002.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2002.
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"New words have been appearing in our language regularly for over a thousand years, but most of them vanish in short order. Especially doomed to obscurity are deliberate coinages, the words people invent to address a perceived need or to make a witty addition to our lexicon. But why? Why do so many new words fail, while others become household name...
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Predicting new words : the secrets of their success / Allan Metcalf.
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Includes index.
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N420.014/1
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74Vvx2VEp2Ml
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0618130063
9780618130061
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420.014
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991016613529702626
