[PDF.77en] Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare

Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare

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 | #1660871 in Books |  2010-01-18 |  2010-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.30 x.70 x7.40l,.43 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| a tremendous boon to the English language|By A. Them|Damp Squid's obscure title masks a jewel of a book about the Oxford "corpus," a two-billion word, computer-analyzable sampling of written and spoken English, and how its existence allows logophiles to answer questions such as "which words and meanings are most frequent" and "how many words do we use in general language." We l| |"This book will be fascinating to those who would really like to find out how the English language is behaving. Clearly written and informative, it is a lively guide to that most creative and challenging language, English" --Alexander McCall Smith

When James Murray compiled the OED in the 19th century, he used a small army of volunteers--and thousands upon thousands of paper slips--to track down the English language. Today, linguists use massive computer power--including the world's largest language databank, the Oxford Corpus, which contains more than two billion words--to determine for the first time definitively how the English language is used.
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You easily download any file type for your device.Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare   |  Jeremy Butterfield.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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