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title:Watch Your Language! : Mother Tongue and Her Wayward Children
author:Gorrell, Robert M.
publisher:University of Nevada Press
isbn10 | asin:0874172357
print isbn13:9780874172355
ebook isbn13:9780874174373
language:English
subjectEnglish language.
publication date:1994
lcc:PE1072.G67 1994eb
ddc:420
subject:English language.
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Watch Your Language!
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Books by Robert Gorrell
Practice in English Communication (1947)
Modern English Handbook (1953; 7th ed., 1988)
Modern English Workbook (1957; 2d ed., 1962)
A Course in Modern English (1960)
Education for College (1961)
English as Language (1961)
A Basic Course in Modern English (1963)
Rhetoric: Theories for Application, ed. (1967)
Modern English Reader (1970; 2d ed., 1977)
Writing and Language (1971)
Reading About Language (1971)
Writing Modern English (1973)
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Watch Your Language!
Mother Tongue and Her Wayward Children
Robert Gorrell
Page iv The paper used in this book meets the requirements of American - photo 2
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The paper used in this book meets the requirements
of American National Standard for Information
SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library
Materials, ANSI Z39.481984. Binding materials
were selected for strength and durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gorrell, Robert M.
Watch your language!: Mother Tongue and her
wayward children / Robert Gorrell.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-87417-235-7 (cloth : acid-free paper)
1. English language. I. Title.
PE1072.G67 1994
420dc20 93-33528
CIP
University of Nevada Press
Reno, Nevada 89557 USA
Copyright 1994 University of Nevada Press
All rights reserved
Design by Erin Kirk
Printed in the United States of America
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For Joie
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Contents
Preface
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Language and Society; Society and Language
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Turning Black to White: Public Doublespeak
3
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Jew's Harp and French Horn: Language and Racism
6
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Fighting Words and Flaming Flags
10
Picture 6
Desexing the Language
14
Picture 7
Mind-Softening: Lying and the Teflon Effect
19
Picture 8
51 Percent Truthful
21
2
Words and Their Ancestors: Family Trees
24
Picture 9
Folk Etymology and Punch and Judy
27
Picture 10
Birds and Animals
31
Picture 11
Names into Words
36
Picture 12
Family Trees with Straight Branches
40
Picture 13
Portmanteau Words
44
Picture 14
Etymologists at Play
45
3
Growing Pains: Dealing with Linguistic Changes
51
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Semantic Change
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