The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
Topic Literature & Language
Subtopic Writing
The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
Course Guidebook
Professor Anne Curzan
University of Michigan
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Anne Curzan, Ph.D. Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English
University of Michigan
Professor Anne Curzan is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She also has faculty appointments in the Department of Linguistics and the School of Education. She received her B.A. in Linguistics with honors from Yale University and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan.
In 2007, Professor Curzan received the University of Michigan's Henry Russel Award, one of the highest honors for midcareer faculty; she also has been honored at Michigan with a Faculty Recognition Award and the John Dewey Award.
Professor Curzan has published on a wide range of topics, including the history of English, language and gender, corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, pedagogy, and lexicography. She is the author of Gender Shifts in the History of English and coauthor, with Michael Adams, of the textbook How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction, now in its third edition. She also coauthored, with Lisa Damour, First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching, also now in its third edition. Professor Curzan's other Great Course is How Conversation Works: 6 Lessons for Better Communication.
Professor Curzan served as coeditor of the Journal of English Linguistics for eight years and is now a senior consulting editor for the journal. She has been a member of the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language since 2006 and is currently a member of the American Dialect Society Executive Committee. Professor Curzan shares her insights on language in short videos on the website of Michigan University's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and on Michigan Radio's weekly segment "That's What They Say." In her spare time, she is an avid runner and triathlete.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography.............................................................................i Typographical Conventions................................................................ vi Course Scope.....................................................................................1
LECTURE GUIDES
Lecture 1 Winning Words, Banished Words 3 Lecture 2 The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death 11 Lecture 3 The Human Hands behind Dictionaries 18 Lecture 4 Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps 24 Lecture 5 Yarn and Clues--New Word Meanings 30 Lecture 6 Smog, Mob, Bling--New Words 38 Lecture 7 "Often" versus "Offen"--Pronunciation 44 Lecture 8 Fighting over Zippers50 Lecture 9 Opening the Early English Word-Hoard 56
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Lecture 10 Safe and Sound--The French Invasion 62
Lecture 11 Magnifical Dexterity--Latin and Learning 68
Lecture 12 Chutzpah to Pajamas--World Borrowings 74
Lecture 13 The Pop/Soda/Coke Divide 82
Lecture 14 Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans 90
Lecture 15 Foot and Pedestrian--Word Cousins 98
Lecture 16 Desultory Somersaults--Latin Roots 106
Lecture 17 Analogous Prologues--Greek Roots 113
Lecture 18 The Tough Stuff of English Spelling 121
Lecture 19 The b in Debt--Meddling in Spelling 126
Lecture 20 Of Mice, Men, and Y'All 133
Lecture 21 I'm Good ... Or Am I Well? 141
Lecture 22 How Snuck Sneaked In 149
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