Language History

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    • Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them
    • Auteur(s): Judy Parkinson
    • Narrateur(s): Kim Hicks
    • Durée: 3 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • You wouldn’t be ‘barking mad’ if, when asked the definition of certain phrases....

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    • Daily Life in Old English
    • Auteur(s): Hana Videen
    • Narrateur(s): Sara Powell
    • Durée: 8 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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 Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
    • Auteur(s): Keith Houston
    • Narrateur(s): Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Durée: 7 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography....

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    • The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
    • Auteur(s): Kevin Boylan, Luc Olivier
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 11 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after WW II, the French established a huge air-land base in Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing VPA began massing its forces against the base in 1953, French commanders seized the chance to draw their enemy into a battle....

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    • 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
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Invention of Miracles tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness....

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    • 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
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Linguistic Aggravation
    • Auteur(s): Ammon Shea
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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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....

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    • 202 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History on Where They Come From!
    • Auteur(s): Scott Matthews
    • Narrateur(s): Mandy Grant-Grierson
    • Durée: 3 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Like many people, you’ve probably used idioms or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But if you were to take a moment to step back and learn about them, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover the mesmerizing and sometimes bizarre origins to these fun sayings....

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    • Auteur(s): Ralph Keyes
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 13 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes' The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the etymological underworld of terms and expressions and uncovers plenty of hidden gems....

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    • Decoding the Language of Emotion
    • Auteur(s): Mark Changizi, Tim Barber
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Changizi
    • Durée: 6 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language....

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    • Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
    • Auteur(s): Michael Wex
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Wex
    • Durée: 10 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Michael Wex gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile....

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    • A Nation of Words
    • Auteur(s): Miriam Weinstein
    • Narrateur(s): J. L. Glick
    • Durée: 9 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Here is the remarkable story of how Yiddish took vigorous root in Eastern European shtetls and in the Jewish quarters of cities across Europe....

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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • Auteur(s): Ian Tattersall
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack....

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    • The Delightful History of Food Language
    • Auteur(s): Judith Tschann
    • Narrateur(s): Alejandra Reynoso
    • Durée: 3 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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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    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrateur(s): Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Smart as hell and funny as f--k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear....

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    • The History and Future of Reading
    • Auteur(s): Leah Price
    • Narrateur(s): Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Durée: 5 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us....

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    • Oxford Bookworms Library
    • Auteur(s): Tim Vicary
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Strayker
    • Durée: 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the summer of 1910, a race began - a race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica....

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    • Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
    • Auteur(s): Jabari Asim
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 9 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet....

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