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Author Ayto, John.

Title Movers and shakers : a chronology of words that shaped our age / John Ayto
Edition Revised edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1999, 2006]
©1999

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Description 250 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "Track the trends across 105 years of language innovation with this account of words we now take for granted but which were once linguistic newcomers." "Movers and Shakers is an updated and recast edition of 20th Century Words, first published in 1999. John Ayto paints a picture of each decade of the twentieth century through its new vocabulary, and looks at the first new arrivals of the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Rev. ed. of: Twentieth century words. 1999
Includes index
Subject English language -- 20th century -- New words -- Dictionaries.
English language -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Author Ayto, John. Twentieth century words
LC no. 2006049596
ISBN 0198614527 hardback
9780198614524 hardback