Free Download Jeremy Butterfield, "Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare"
English | ISBN: 019957409X | 2010 | 179 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
When James Murray compiled the OED in the 19th century, he used a small army of volunteers-and thousands upon thousands of paper slips-to track down the English language. Today, linguists use massive computer power-including the world’s largest language databank, the Oxford Corpus, which contains more than two billion words-to determine for the first time definitively how the English language is used.
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