Damp Squid

Download or read book Damp Squid written by Jeremy Butterfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Jeremy Butterfield mines the Oxford Corpus, a vast collection of electronically-held texts used for compiling Oxford's world-famous dictionaries. He uncovers a wealth of fascinating facts and figures across the whole spectrum of English - from vocabulary size and word origins to spelling and meaning, from word groupings and idiomatic phrases to grammar and usage." "Whether you are happy to give the language free rein (free reign?), or whether you are more straight-laced (strait-laced?) when it comes to change, you will be amazed at what is revealed when the English language goes buck naked. (Or should that be butt naked?)"--BOOK JACKET.