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Playing Catch-up: 2 Months of Nonfiction
More >>Since I posted my last entry my work life has been an unholy mess. While I've cut back on writing, looking at the piles of books on my bedside bookcase I don't seem to have stopped reading. Here's what I've read in the last 2 months (all nonfiction, natch):
- Damp Squid by Jeremy Butterfield - A nice combination of linguistic flummery and scientific analysis, looking at the origins of some oddities and the continuous change in the English language.
- Gallimaufry by Michael Quinlon - A deeper dive into the words, phrases and constructs the English language is losing or has lost as it changes into a global lingua franca.
Posted by Mr. Erik Wieland on Mar 28 2010 5:53PM | 0 comments
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