The Secret Life of Words - English Words and Their Origins

In this course, you’ll

- discover the history of the dictionary and how words make it into a reference book like the Oxford English Dictionary (OED);

- survey the borrowed words that make up the English lexicon;

- find out how words are born and how they die;

- expand your vocabulary by studying Greek and Latin “word webs”; and

- revel in new terms, such as “musquirt,” “adorkable,” and “struggle bus.”

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