Why is this a question? : everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask /: everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask. (2022)
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- Title:
- Why is this a question? : everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask /: everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Why is this a question? : everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask
- Further Information:
- Note: Paul Anthony Jones.
- Authors:
- Jones, Paul Anthony
- Contents:
- Preface -- Introduction: What is the English language? -- What is a word? -- What is a language? -- Where do languages come from? -- Where do words come from? -- What is the hardest language to learn? -- Why do languages have genders? -- Where do our number names come from? -- Why is the alphabet in ABC order? -- Why do we have vowels and consonants? -- Why do we capitalise I? -- Why does i have a dot? -- Why is Q always followed by U? -- Why do we have double letters? -- Does anything rhyme with orange? -- Why do our words go in the order they do? -- How do we read? -- How do we speak? -- How do we understand? -- Why is this a question? -- Why do we use our hands when we talk? -- 14 puzzles: The solutions -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Elliott & Thompson
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 400
Language and languages
Language and languages - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1783966653
9781783966653 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781783966646
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