Weeds in the Garden of Words
Contents
Acknowledgments
page ix
Introduction
to the Weedy Traits of the 1
English
Language
Our
Lexical Weeds: the World of Jargon, Slang 14
and
Euphemism
More
Lexical Weeds: Word Origins and Meaning 49
Shifts
Our
Grammatical Weeds 84
Weeds
in Our Sounds and Spelling 120
The
Truly Nasty Weeds of the English Language? 165
W(h)ither
Our Weeds? 182
Bibliography
186
List
of Interesting Words 191
