剧情简介：The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms (nimby), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir...(展开全部)
作者：John Ayto
出版社：A&C Black Business Information and Development
ISBN：9780713674989
