by John Ayto · Oxford University Press · Tapa dura · ISBN 9780198602309
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«Twentieth Century Words» is John Ayto's dictionary of twentieth-century neologisms, from Oxford University Press, in hardcover (640 pages, in English).
Lexicographer John Ayto documents some five thousand neologisms and senses of twentieth-century English. Organized by decade, each part opens with a contextual essay; alphabetical entries record the first date of use, and thematic boxes highlight cases such as words that emerged during the Second World War.
Cataloged as a reference and linguistic work, it was originally published in 1999; the hardcover edition consists of 640 pages.
It will interest linguistics students and readers curious about how English reflects the cultural and technological changes of the twentieth century.
