TGC - The Secret Life Of Words

1. 01_Winning Words, Banished Words.mp329.02MB
2. 02_The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death.mp328.33MB
3. 03_The Human Hands behind Dictionaries.mp327.9MB
4. 04_Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps.mp327.98MB
5. 05_Yarn and Clues—New Word Meanings.mp328.13MB
6. 06_Smog, Mob, Bling—New Words.mp328.15MB
7. 07_“Often” versus “Offen”—Pronunciation.mp327.18MB
8. 08_Fighting over Zippers.mp327.48MB
9. 09_Opening the Early English Word-Hoard.mp327.71MB
10. 10_Safe and Sound—The French Invasion.mp327.15MB
11. 11_Magnifical Dexterity—Latin and Learning.mp325.94MB
12. 12_Chutzpah to Pajamas—World Borrowings.mp327.51MB
13. 13_The Pop Soda Coke Divide.mp327.68MB
14. 14_Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans.mp329.83MB
15. 15_Foot and Pedestrian—Word Cousins.mp327.05MB
16. 16_Desultory Somersaults—Latin Roots.mp327.59MB
17. 17_Analogous Prologues—Greek Roots.mp328.99MB
18. 18_The Tough Stuff of English Spelling.mp327.83MB
19. 19_The b in Debt—Meddling in Spelling.mp328.42MB
20. 20_Of Mice, Men, and Y’All.mp327.93MB
21. 21_I’m Good … Or Am I Well.mp326.33MB
22. 22_How Snuck Sneaked In.mp327.4MB
23. 23_Um, Well, Like, You Know.mp329.49MB
24. 24_Wicked Cool—The Irreverence of Slang.mp326.92MB
25. 25_Boy Toys and Bad Eggs—Slangy Wordplay.mp329.39MB
26. 26_Spinster, Bachelor, Guy, Dude.mp327.98MB
27. 27_Firefighters and Freshpersons.mp327.18MB
28. 28_A Slam Dunk—The Language of Sports.mp327.88MB
29. 29_Fooling Around—The Language of Love.mp327.85MB
30. 30_Gung Ho—The Language of War.mp328.33MB
31. 31_Filibustering—The Language of Politics.mp326.93MB
32. 32_LOL—The Language of the Internet.mp329.03MB
33. 33_#$@%!—Forbidden Words.mp328.28MB
34. 34_Couldn’t (or Could) Care Less.mp327.66MB
35. 35_Musquirt and Other Lexical Gaps.mp329.21MB
36. 36_Playing Fast and Loose with Words.mp331.13MB