Butterfield, Jeremy,  1951- <br/><br/>
Damp squid :  the English language laid bare /  
Jeremy Butterfield. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  2009. 
 - 179 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-174) and index. 
<br/><br/>A sea change: the corpus -- Size matters: how many words? -- Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English: where do words come from? -- Beware of heard: why spelling wobbles -- Which is to be master? meaning in context -- Words of a feather: word groupings -- Cats and dogs: idiomatic phrases -- Grammar that can govern even kings: what do we mean by grammar? -- Style wars: usages people hate. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199574094 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> English language--Etymology.<br/> English language--Word formation.<br/> English language--Usage.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1575  / B88 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>412  / B988