Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. An old joke goes like this: What's the difference between a good girl and a nice girl?Answer: The good girl goes to a party, goes home then goes to bed, whereas the nice girl goes to the party, goes to bed, then goes home...read more

Product Description: xiii + 208 pages, discussion of the evolution of the English language and its adoption and adaption of terms from other languages (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Drawing from his "Speaking of Language" columns written for The Montreal Gazette, Howard Richler invites readers to enjoy the pleasures of exploring the English language—which is rapidly becoming the world’s lingua franca. Among other things, Richler traces how foreign words invaded the English language over the centuries, and how people’s names came into existence...read more