OED news -- two new books about English

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 9/21/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sep 21, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > From the OED (I assume many here have seen this, but if not, the
> > subtitle of the second book below is amusing):
> >
> > Two new books from Oxford University Press focus on the history of
> > the language and our battles to control it.
> > The Oxford History of English, edited by Lynda Mugglestone
> >
> > The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left, by
> > David Crystal: ...
>
> the first is available through OUP-US, the second not (yet).

US pub date is Nov. 1.

http://www.amazon.com/Fight-English-Language-Pundits-Shot/dp/019920764X/


--Ben Zimmer

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