The Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur and Feri McArthur
English | 1992 | ISBN: 019214183X | 1216 pages | PDF | 33 MB
Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and speech, in the endless variety of dialects and slangs, in the incessant creativity of the human mind as it reaches out to others.