English Language History
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Splendiferous Speech
- How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English
- Auteur(s): Rosemarie Ostler
- Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
- Durée: 8 h et 54 min
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Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the sensation-filled pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists (first word adoption - the Algonquian raccoon) and is still going strong today. Author Rosemarie Ostler takes listeners along on the journey as Americans learn to declare linguistic independence and embrace their own brand of speech.
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Splendiferous Speech
- How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English
- Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
- Durée: 8 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2018-11-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists and is still going strong....
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The Only Language They Understand
- Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
- Auteur(s): Nathan Thrall
- Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions, and state-building efforts. The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly, perhaps terminally, thwarted by violence. Through a rich interweaving of reportage, historical narrative, and powerful analysis, Nathan Thrall presents a startling counterhistory.
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The Only Language They Understand
- Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
- Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2017-05-16
- Langue: Anglais
- Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions....
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The Wordhord
- Daily Life in Old English
- Auteur(s): Hana Videen
- Narrateur(s): Sara Powell
- Durée: 8 h et 23 min
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Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern audiences. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers.
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The Wordhord
- Daily Life in Old English
- Narrateur(s): Sara Powell
- Durée: 8 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2022-05-10
- Langue: Anglais
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Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern audiences. Hana Videen gathers a trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers....
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- Auteur(s): Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
- Narrateur(s): Richard Burnip
- Durée: 14 h et 38 min
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language provides a fascinating survey of how grammar came into being and the differences or similarities between languages spoken around the world, before exploring how language eventually emerged in the very remote human past.
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Not a fast walk, but an intuitive and rational one
- Écrit par Family le 2024-07-15
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- Narrateur(s): Richard Burnip
- Durée: 14 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2021-09-02
- Langue: Anglais
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....
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Bad English
- A History of Linguistic Aggravation
- Auteur(s): Ammon Shea
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 7 h et 21 min
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Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the audiobook chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes, and features some of our most common words and phrases, including decimate, hopefully, enormity, that vs. which, enervate vs. energize, bemuse vs. amuse, literally vs. figuratively, ain't, irregardless, socialist, OMG, and stupider.
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Bad English
- A History of Linguistic Aggravation
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 7 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2014-08-19
- Langue: Anglais
- Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the audiobook chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes....
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A Little History of Poetry
- Auteur(s): John Carey
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
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What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This little history is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world.
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A Little History of Poetry
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Série: Little Histories Series
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-21
- Langue: Anglais
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Auteur(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrateur(s): Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Durée: 10 h et 45 min
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Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator.
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Narrateur(s): Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Durée: 10 h et 45 min
- Date de publication: 2024-11-26
- Langue: Anglais
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Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, her thoughts on writing, and her commentary on literary science fiction and fantasy and their future.
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This Victorian Life
- Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
- Auteur(s): Sarah A. Chrisman
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 11 h et 37 min
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We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?
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Cherished every minute!
- Écrit par Heidi le 2023-05-17
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This Victorian Life
- Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 11 h et 37 min
- Date de publication: 2015-11-24
- Langue: Anglais
- We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? Find out....
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An Emotional Dictionary
- Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder
- Auteur(s): Susie Dent
- Narrateur(s): Susie Dent
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
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Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them. Here are 1001 terms everyone needs, whether it's the best kind of hug (CWTCH), the relief found in swearing (LALOCHEZIA), or the ability to endure till the end (PERTOLERANCE).
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An Emotional Dictionary
- Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder
- Narrateur(s): Susie Dent
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
- Date de publication: 2022-10-13
- Langue: Anglais
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There are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them....
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The Invention of Miracles
- Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness
- Auteur(s): Katie Booth
- Narrateur(s): Samantha Desz
- Durée: 12 h et 8 min
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We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. The Invention of Miracles takes a new look at an American icon, revealing the astonishing true genesis of the telephone and its connection to another, far more disturbing legacy of Bell’s.
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A book every hearing person should read
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2021-05-14
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The Invention of Miracles
- Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness
- Narrateur(s): Samantha Desz
- Durée: 12 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2021-04-06
- Langue: Anglais
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The Invention of Miracles tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness....
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and the Mind - And How We Know It
- Auteur(s): A. C. Grayling
- Narrateur(s): Richard Goulding
- Durée: 13 h et 43 min
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In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just five per cent of the universe, pre-history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored, and the new neurosciences of mind and brain are just beginning.
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The Frontiers of Knowledge
- What We Know About Science, History and the Mind - And How We Know It
- Narrateur(s): Richard Goulding
- Durée: 13 h et 43 min
- Date de publication: 2021-05-06
- Langue: Anglais
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In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn....
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A Terribly Serious Adventure
- Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
- Auteur(s): Nikhil Krishnan
- Narrateur(s): Kieran Hodgson
- Durée: 11 h et 48 min
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These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as Philippa Foot (originator of the famous trolley problem), Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Gilbert Ryle, and J. L. Austin aspired to a new level of watchfulness and self-awareness about language as a way of keeping philosophy true to everyday experience.
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A Terribly Serious Adventure
- Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
- Narrateur(s): Kieran Hodgson
- Durée: 11 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2023-07-04
- Langue: Anglais
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These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism....
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Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day
- The Delightful History of Food Language
- Auteur(s): Judith Tschann
- Narrateur(s): Alejandra Reynoso
- Durée: 3 h et 48 min
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In Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day, linguist Tschann takes us on a journey from the vineyards of Avignon to the shores of Tahiti to the port of Mocha on the Red Sea coast to explore the history of the history of the words we use for the food we eat. Chock full of linguistic did-you-knows and delectable trivia, this is your go-to gift for history buffs, crossword fiends, and Scrabble diehards. This is the surprising and sometimes hilarious history of food, told through the lens of the fascinating evolution of language.
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Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day
- The Delightful History of Food Language
- Narrateur(s): Alejandra Reynoso
- Durée: 3 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2023-02-21
- Langue: Anglais
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In Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day, linguist Tschann takes us on a journey from the vineyards of Avignon to the shores of Tahiti to the port of Mocha on the Red Sea coast to explore the history of the history of the words we use for the food we eat....
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The Pun Also Rises
- How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
- Auteur(s): John Pollack
- Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
- Durée: 4 h et 57 min
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The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth. At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter?
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The Pun Also Rises
- How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
- Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
- Durée: 4 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2011-08-01
- Langue: Anglais
- The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth....
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Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
- Auteur(s): Charles, Mary Lamb
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
- Durée: 4 h et 53 min
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Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play and come away without fully understanding it? Or wished you had known the basis of the plot before seeing a play by Shakespeare? Are you studying Shakespeare? Would you like to increase your knowledge of the plays without reading the originals? Then these are the recordings for you!
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Great performance but...
- Écrit par J. R. Mclarty le 2019-09-09
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Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
- Durée: 4 h et 53 min
- Date de publication: 2005-06-13
- Langue: Anglais
- Brother and sister team, Charles and Mary Lamb, originally wrote these stories for children in 1807, based on Shakespeare's most famous plays....
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The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion
- Auteur(s): Herman Wouk
- Narrateur(s): Bob Walter
- Durée: 5 h et 8 min
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"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins The Language God Talks, Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. In one rich, compact volume, Wouk draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what purpose faith serves, and how scientific fact fits into the picture.
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The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion
- Narrateur(s): Bob Walter
- Durée: 5 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2010-04-05
- Langue: Anglais
- Brilliantly written, The Language God Talks is a scintillating and lively investigation and a worthy addition to the literature.....
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Don't Believe a Word
- The Surprising Truth About Language
- Auteur(s): David Shariatmadari
- Narrateur(s): Damian Lynch
- Durée: 8 h et 59 min
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Everyone likes to think they know a bit about language: There are some words that you simply can't translate into English. The origin of a word tells you how it should be used. A dialect is inferior to a language. The problem is, none of these statements are true. In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David Shariatmadari explodes nine common myths about language and introduces us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics.
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Don't Believe a Word
- The Surprising Truth About Language
- Narrateur(s): Damian Lynch
- Durée: 8 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2020-01-07
- Langue: Anglais
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An entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function: In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David Shariatmadari explodes nine common myths about language and introduces us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics....
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Written in Stone
- A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
- Auteur(s): Christopher Stevens
- Narrateur(s): Michael Healy
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue. First spoken in Stone Age times on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago, this mother tongue spread from the shores of the Black Sea across almost all of Europe and much of Asia. It is the genetic basis of everything we speak and write today - the DNA of language.
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Written in Stone
- A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
- Narrateur(s): Michael Healy
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2015-11-15
- Langue: Anglais
- Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue....
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That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
- The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
- Auteur(s): Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
- Narrateur(s): Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
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Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language.
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That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
- The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
- Narrateur(s): Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2023-02-21
- Langue: Anglais
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Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them....
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Words to Eat By
- Five Foods and the Culinary History of the English Language
- Auteur(s): Ina Lipkowitz
- Narrateur(s): Carolyn Cook
- Durée: 9 h et 34 min
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Words to Eat By explores the remarkable stories behind five of our most basic food words, words which reveal fascinating aspects of the evolution of the English language and our powerful associations with certain foods. Using sources that vary from Roman histories and early translations of the Bible to Julia Child's recipes and Frank Bruni's restaurant reviews, Ina Lipkowitz shows how saturated with French and Italian names the English culinary vocabulary is, "from a la carte to zabaglione."
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Words to Eat By
- Five Foods and the Culinary History of the English Language
- Narrateur(s): Carolyn Cook
- Durée: 9 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2013-09-06
- Langue: Anglais
- You may be what you eat, but you're also what you speak, and English food words tell a remarkable story about the evolution of our language and culinary history....
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