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Geoffrey Hughes is Professor of the History of the English Language at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. A graduate of Oxford University, he has held academic and research posts at Cape Town, Harvard and Turin. His main interests are in historical semantics and sociolinguistics on which he has written over twenty papers and two books, Words in Time (Blackwell, 1988) and Swearing (Blackwell, 1991). He is a consultant for the Collins Dictionaries on South African English and has been editor of the journal English Studies in Africa.
In this scholarly, but readable, book Professor Hughes provides an excellent introduction to the history of the English language and its vocabulary. He traces the evolution of the mother tongue from its Germanic origins, through the influence of Norman French and the borrowings from the classical languages during the Renaissance, to the Americanizing influences of the 20th century. He examines the coinage words and their evolving meanings as indicators of social change and symbols of new ideas. Hughes repeatedly illuminates the relationship between the way we speak and the world we inhabit. (Kirkus UK)
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