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"This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America's best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases.
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Spare, contemporary, warm and cool.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Geoffrey Nunberg
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Tandem Library, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780618116027
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First sentence
“As soon as we knew it was going to be a girl, we started looking for a name in earnest.”
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