35.2026, Books: Highly Irregular: Okrent and O'Neill (2024)

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Date: 10-Jul-2024
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Highly Irregular: Okrent and O'Neill (2024)


Title: Highly Irregular
Subtitle: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities
of the English Language
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/highly-irregular-978
0197760918?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=li
nguistics

Author: Arika Okrent
Author: Sean O'Neill
Paperback: ISBN: 9780197760918 Pages: 252 Price: U.K. £ 11.99
Abstract:

'Highly Irregular' is an illustrated history of English as told
through all the things that are weird about it. Why are there so many
silent letters? Why do we have irregular verbs? What is the deal with
the word 'colonel'? The weirdness of English can be blamed on specific
influences that shaped it, and in this book Arika Okrent investigates
the many puzzles of our language to show how English came to be the
way it is today.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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