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 | The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-312-42856-1 / 0312428561 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42856-3 / 9780312428563 AN "ECONOMIST" BOOK OF THE YEAR"The Secret Life of Words "is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trick | |